A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . RAM?VOCK AND SCALED ROLLED. Fig. 40.—Scales and hammock for weighing infant. THE NURSES OUTFIT. 121 daily, and as scales are seldom to be had when they are wantedfor this purpose, it is a good plan for the nurse to add to herobstetrics outfit a small scales and hammock, such as is shownin Fig. 40. The best scales are large ones with weights, or the old-fashioned steelyards, for no spring balance is exactly accurate;but in the absence of the bulky apparatus, the little pocket affairshown in the illustration, and to be had of any de
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . RAM?VOCK AND SCALED ROLLED. Fig. 40.—Scales and hammock for weighing infant. THE NURSES OUTFIT. 121 daily, and as scales are seldom to be had when they are wantedfor this purpose, it is a good plan for the nurse to add to herobstetrics outfit a small scales and hammock, such as is shownin Fig. 40. The best scales are large ones with weights, or the old-fashioned steelyards, for no spring balance is exactly accurate;but in the absence of the bulky apparatus, the little pocket affairshown in the illustration, and to be had of any dealer in surgicalsupplies, answers very well. The importance of weighing theinfant daily cannot be overestimated, and it is needless to addthat, as the daily variation in weight is always a matter ofounces or fractions of an ounce, the same scales should be usedeach time and, unless the infant is placed in the scales quitenaked, any towels, blankets or diaper should afterward beweighed separately and their weight deducted from the total. The normal weight of a male child at birth is se
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