The American text-book of obstetrics for practitioners and students . which the child is placed, undressed, with absorbent cotton aboutits genitals. The tub is then filled with cotton-wool, with the exception of aspace for the childs face. The Ideal incubator (Figs. 162. 163) is a recent and It is constructed of steel with glass doors, and one glass windowon the side for feeding purposes, etc. The heat generated in c communicatesitself to the water-filled tubes e on the inside, maintaining a uniform tem-perature at any desired point by means of a thermo-regulator inside
The American text-book of obstetrics for practitioners and students . which the child is placed, undressed, with absorbent cotton aboutits genitals. The tub is then filled with cotton-wool, with the exception of aspace for the childs face. The Ideal incubator (Figs. 162. 163) is a recent and It is constructed of steel with glass doors, and one glass windowon the side for feeding purposes, etc. The heat generated in c communicatesitself to the water-filled tubes e on the inside, maintaining a uniform tem-perature at any desired point by means of a thermo-regulator inside, which PATHOLOGY OF THE NEW-BORN INFANT. m is controlled by micrometer adjustment from outside. The hygrometerrecords the atmospheric conditions of the chamber. The air supplied tothe infanl is filtered through an absorbent cotton filter in the box a; this;ijr can be taken from the room in which the apparatus is placed, or <-an be obtained directly fr the outside by means of tubes. The revolving Wheel (m) in the chimney indicates the perfect circulation of Fig. 16:2.—- Ideal incubator, manufacturedby the Kny-Seheerer Co., New York. Fig. 163.—Sectional view of the Ideal incubator. An extemporized incubator may be made in any home with easily pro-cured materials that will answer the purpose of the more elaborate manu-factured article very well. A large-sized market-basket, a small-sizedclothes-basket, or an ordinary wooden box is first lined with heavy wrappingpaper, and is then thoroughly padded with blankets or cotton batting, orboth. Half of the basket or the box is then filled with some soft, non-con-ducting material, such as cotton-wool or cotton batting. Ilot-walcr bottlesor hot-water bags are to he so arranged about the sides of this receptacle thatone or more may be removed or exchanged without exposing or in any way 390 AMERICAN TEXTBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. disturbing the child. The child, having been thoroughly anointed with warmsweet oil, is placed in this rec
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