The practice of pediatrics . Ingenious and complicated incubators have been devised,many of which have apparatus for supplying oxygen to the infant inaddition to heat. The disadvantage of elaborate incubators lies intheir tendency to be infected on the inner surface. Those which areheated by gas do not furnish a favorable atmosphere for the infant. Suchincubators are extensively advertised, but are of little practical value. 20 DISEASES AXD IXJCRIES OF THE XEWBURX If a permanent incubator be desired I liave had excellent results withthe use of Auvards simple one (Fig. 3). This consists of a cu
The practice of pediatrics . Ingenious and complicated incubators have been devised,many of which have apparatus for supplying oxygen to the infant inaddition to heat. The disadvantage of elaborate incubators lies intheir tendency to be infected on the inner surface. Those which areheated by gas do not furnish a favorable atmosphere for the infant. Suchincubators are extensively advertised, but are of little practical value. 20 DISEASES AXD IXJCRIES OF THE XEWBURX If a permanent incubator be desired I liave had excellent results withthe use of Auvards simple one (Fig. 3). This consists of a cubicalbox, across three-fourths of which extends a berth. There is free com-munication between the air chamber beneath the berth and the berthitself by the open space left where the floor of the berth does not meetthe opposite wall. Beneath the berth are placed copper cans filledwith hot water. I have found that if one of these cans be changed eachhour a temperature of over 90° F. is readily maintained. A small trap- Fig. 3. Incubator, showing hot-waier cans and arrangement. door in the side of the box farthest from the opening into the berth per-mits air to enter, pass over the copper cans, and rise to the child lyingin the berth. At the opposite extremity from the space where warm airarises a copper tube an inch or more in diameter is passed throughthe roof of the box. This tube may contain a small revolving fan keptin motion by the constant stream of heated air which finds egressthrough the tube. As the fan is delicate and likely to break down Ihave discarded it, using the simple tube alone. A constant circulation THE PREMATURE INFANT 27 of air is thus maintained in the simplest manner possible. The roof ofthe box next the tube is largely of glass, beneath which a thermometeris fastened. The box should not be placed upon the floor of the room,but upon a table or two chairs, and if desired it may be placed near awindow or ventilator communicating with the outside air to secur
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