The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . the new-bom? (3) Is the incubator used? (4) Is it dis-infected? (5) What is the average number of days spent in the incubator? (6) Has theincubator lessened the mortality among the premature? (7) If no incubator is used, whatreplaces it? (8) What is the mode of feeding? In regard to the use of the incubator32 answers from clinics were received by Berend and Deutsch. It appears that but threeinstitutions use the Lion couveuse; 11 the Tamier-Auvard apparatus; 7 the Crede apparatus;while in the other 11 t
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . the new-bom? (3) Is the incubator used? (4) Is it dis-infected? (5) What is the average number of days spent in the incubator? (6) Has theincubator lessened the mortality among the premature? (7) If no incubator is used, whatreplaces it? (8) What is the mode of feeding? In regard to the use of the incubator32 answers from clinics were received by Berend and Deutsch. It appears that but threeinstitutions use the Lion couveuse; 11 the Tamier-Auvard apparatus; 7 the Crede apparatus;while in the other 11 the old custom of wrapping the children in cotton still obtains. Inregard to the temperature of the incubator, it should vary inversely with that of the child. 808 THE PATHOLOGY OF THE NEWLY BORN. 2. Acute Infectious Diseases.—Children have been born with a full variolouseruption, or the exanthem may not appear until several days post cases occur very infrequently. The child dies as a rule, but recoveryhas been recorded. Both variola and vaccinia of the mother may confer im-. i, Fig. 1004. -Large Umbilical Hernia in the Newly Born Containing a Portion ofTHE Intestines, Liver, Stomach, and Spleen.—{Authors case.) \ munity against smallpox on children who have escaped actual infection in utero,but such immunity is short-lived. In the recorded cases of measles the childrenhave always been bom with full rash, the disease apparently exploding in themother and fetus at the same time. It is otherwise with scarlatina, which in some cases has not broken outin the child until the first daypostpartum. In a few casesthe newly bom have beenhealthy at first, but contract-ed the maternal diseasesecondarily, probably fromthe breast-milk. No case ofintrauterine transmission ofdiphtheria is known, but thenewly bom have been infectedthrough other channels whenthe mother was suffering fromthe disease. The childrenbom of women with typhoidjever exhibit a high degree ofcongenital debi
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