A manual of obstetrics . Fig. 158.—Auvard incubator or couveuse. an environment of proper warmth, it is much more imper-ative that these immature creatures be afforded the samefavorable circumstances, and even to a greater degree. Thefetal temperature may best be maintained at the normal PATHOLOGY OF THE NEW-BORN. 703 point through the agency of an apparatus technically knownas a couveiise or incubator, various forms of which have beendevised. Those most commonly employed in hospitals andmaternity-institutions are Tarniers, Credes, Auvards (, 159), and Rotchs. Tarniers couveuse consist
A manual of obstetrics . Fig. 158.—Auvard incubator or couveuse. an environment of proper warmth, it is much more imper-ative that these immature creatures be afforded the samefavorable circumstances, and even to a greater degree. Thefetal temperature may best be maintained at the normal PATHOLOGY OF THE NEW-BORN. 703 point through the agency of an apparatus technically knownas a couveiise or incubator, various forms of which have beendevised. Those most commonly employed in hospitals andmaternity-institutions are Tarniers, Credes, Auvards (, 159), and Rotchs. Tarniers couveuse consists of abox with two compartments, in the upper of which the childis placed, while the lower is filled with warm water, by. Fig. 159.—Interior view of the Auvard incubator (Fig. 158). which a uniform temperature of sufficient degree is main-tained. Credes apparatus is in the form of a copper bath-tub with hollow walls and base through which heated wateris allowed to flow: the temperature within the tub may thusbe maintained at or slightly above blood-heat. The othervarieties of incubators are based upon modifications of theforegoing. In the absence of such apparatus a very effi-cient incubator may be improvised from an ordinary baby-tub or a wooden box. The child may be placed in this, wellsurrounded with cotton-wool, and a proper temperaturemaintained by hot bricks or hot-water bottles frequentlychanged. By such procedure, promptly instituted, manya fetal life will be saved that otherwise would almost in-evitably be lost. Especially is this method of treatment 704 A MANUAL OF OBSTETRICS. of service in the rearing of children born from four to sixweeks before term. Fully 95 per cent, of these infants may
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