A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothersComprising the course of instruction in obstetrical nursing given to the pupils of the training school for nurses connected with the Woman's hospital of Philadelphia . Auvards Couveuse (Interior View). each, keeping one under the escape-pipe and theother over the fire, reheating the water in the vesselfilled by the escape-pipe and having it in readi-ness for the next change. The two vessels may * Archives de Tocologie. THE AILMENTS OF EARLY INFANCY. I9I be thus used alternately, and but little time con-sumed in the heating of t
A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothersComprising the course of instruction in obstetrical nursing given to the pupils of the training school for nurses connected with the Woman's hospital of Philadelphia . Auvards Couveuse (Interior View). each, keeping one under the escape-pipe and theother over the fire, reheating the water in the vesselfilled by the escape-pipe and having it in readi-ness for the next change. The two vessels may * Archives de Tocologie. THE AILMENTS OF EARLY INFANCY. I9I be thus used alternately, and but little time con-sumed in the heating of the apparatus as comparedwith that required in the use of Tarniers inven-tion. To empty the cylinder, a rubber tube is attachedto the escape-pipes, by which it is made to act as a Fig. Auvards Couveuse (Exterior View). siphon—a small quantity of water poured into thecylinder through the funnel being sufficient to startthe liquid. Before the couveuse was known prematurebabies were swaddled in cotton, in order to be kept Cottonswaddling. 192 OBSTETRICAL NURSING. sufficiently warm. The directions for doing thisare as follows :— Take a square baby-blanket and place it diagon-ally on the table or bed. Turn down one cornerfor four inches distance, to come up over thebabys head. Spread over this blanket a lap ofraw cotton. Have the babys napkin and binderon and a flannel undervest. Make a cap out ofthe cotton, fitting it over the babys head and Fig. 33.
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