Archives of pediatrics . pparatus, washedout once a week, three times in all, and now you can see thatthe baby has picked up rapidly, having gained at the rate of alittle over one pound each week in these six weeks, and nowweighs sixteen pounds! Demonstration.—The clothesand bandages of the abdomenbeing loosened, the child isplaced upright on the lap ofthe mother. Guided by theleft index finger, which pressesdown the tongue, a soft, velvet-eye catheter is passed over thetongue into the pharynx. Herethe muscles of the upper oesoph-agus contract and we feel animpediment, which is readilyovercome
Archives of pediatrics . pparatus, washedout once a week, three times in all, and now you can see thatthe baby has picked up rapidly, having gained at the rate of alittle over one pound each week in these six weeks, and nowweighs sixteen pounds! Demonstration.—The clothesand bandages of the abdomenbeing loosened, the child isplaced upright on the lap ofthe mother. Guided by theleft index finger, which pressesdown the tongue, a soft, velvet-eye catheter is passed over thetongue into the pharynx. Herethe muscles of the upper oesoph-agus contract and we feel animpediment, which is readilyovercome by slight patientpressure. Slowly the catheterglides into the stomach. Wenow attach a glass tube inconnection with the hose ofthe fountain, open the crank,and allow the water to about a cupful has passed in we first shut the crank,detach the hose from the glass tube, incline the child forwardand let the water run out, which it does readily, the outer endof the catheter being; lower than the inside Apparatus for Stomach-Wasbing 122 East Seventeenth Street, New York. Earle : Tlie Rise and Progress of Diphtheria in Chicago. 231 THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF DIPHTHERIAIN CHICAGO. BY CHARLES WARRINGTON EARLE, ,Professor of Pediatrics, Womans Medical College, Chicago. We have no record of the health of the early settlers of ourcity. Cholera was brought to us in 1832, from Quebec, andduring the following year, 1833, the town authorities beganto pay attention to the Chicago River by the declaration thatit was unlawful to throw or put into said river any carcass ofdead animals, under a penalty of three dollars. In 1834 the first board of health was established, but itsexistence was short and its functions exceedingly this time till 1859 (twenty-five years) the word diph-theria does not occur in any reports to which I have 9, 1837, Dr. Daniel Brainard was appointed health offi-cer, and in 1841 an attempt was made to collect and have re-cord
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