A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 599.—Auvard incubator or Fi^r ()00. — Interior view of the Auvard incubator (Fig. 599). around the buttocks, and must be changed often enough toprevent chafing. The mortality of this treatment has so much improved thechances of a premature infant that at six months, according toTarnicrs statistics, 22 per cent, are saved ; at seven months, 38 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NEW-BORN INFANT. J(jS per cent, arc saved. Charles,1 from an analysis of 932 premature births, found that at six months 10 per cent, were saved ; at six-ain 1 a half, 20 per cent. ; at seven, 40
A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 599.—Auvard incubator or Fi^r ()00. — Interior view of the Auvard incubator (Fig. 599). around the buttocks, and must be changed often enough toprevent chafing. The mortality of this treatment has so much improved thechances of a premature infant that at six months, according toTarnicrs statistics, 22 per cent, are saved ; at seven months, 38 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NEW-BORN INFANT. J(jS per cent, arc saved. Charles,1 from an analysis of 932 premature births, found that at six months 10 per cent, were saved ; at six-ain 1 a half, 20 per cent. ; at seven, 40 per cent. ; at seven and ahalf, 75 per cent. Sclerema is a disease of premature infants, seen most oftenin lying-in hospitals. The most prominent symptom i.^ a har-dening of the skin, beginning in the legs and spreading overthe body, usually sparing the breast and abdomen. Jaundice ora hemorrhagic tendency often accompanies it. The temperatureis very low, remaining at or below 95°. The pathology of thedisease is not well understood. It has been ascribed to ed
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