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Show II , INCUBATOR BABIES 1 ARE FAT AND ROSY ' I Scientific Device for Saving- the Lives of Weakly Infants at the World's Pair. By the Countess do Montaigu. T L0UIS. Anril 2. Oame Nature might learn .some valued lcsBont. were she to visit the World's fak and study some of he Ingenious devices that have been evolved to as-I as-I -sist her In her multifarious duties. ' Scientists insist that in the baby lncu- I bator displayed at the Louisiana Pur- chase exposition a device has been per-footed per-footed whereby many little lives that would otherwise be lost may now be Hi Nature nowadays seems scarcely 1 aught but the auxiliary of scienco for H' artificial methods are being- ho wonder- fully perfected that perhaps in another century we will be able to dispense with her altogether. The physical culturlats H 1 declare that normal methods of respira- H' rio are faulty in the extreme, eo per- Hf haps it will bo the snme with baby cul- J lure, and incubation will be found su- H perlor to a mother's care. Saved Many lives. ' The Incubator, it is said, has savod the lives of thoueands of little ones who would surely have died under the wcll- H.'.'. meaning but Inefficient care of inex- W perienced mothers. An equable tem- 1 perature, pasteurised milk, filtered air and the untiring services of a trained nurse are things unattainable except to the wealthy. H; The records of the large hospitals s-how that as a life saving device tire Hl Incubator is invaluable. Light and K warmth nre primordial factors in pro- W inotlng growth and the high ceiled Hh apartment where the little embryos are U housed is flooded with light and kept at H a temperature of 00 degrees. The incubator is a square box of H shining metal mating on iron supports Hj und raised about three feet from the Hl floor. It is air tight except for the von- Hp tilatlng pipe which connects with the Hj I x ai the left, sending into it a con- M tlnual stream of pure air from the out- H side Tt is filtered by passing- through UMm a tube capped with a thin layer of ab- H' rorbent cotton which frees It from dust H' and microbes. An even temperature is H maintained by the air passing over hot H water plpcn, while an exhaust pipe car- H rlcs on! all impurities. H Keeps Tab on the Oxygen. H A metal wheel is constantly kept in H motion by the escaped air and is an in- H dicSlor of the rapidity with which the H oxygen is consumed. In every com- H partmcnt there is a thermometer for the j guidance of the nurse. The partition is Hj provided with two glass sides so that H the physician and attendant may ob- H serve the patient without admitting un- H filtered air or disturbing the tempora- H On the front of the box is a chart on Hj which is registered the weight, size, Hl temperature, pulse, respiration and gen- H era physical condition of the occupant. H Every two hours the babies are taken H from their cosy nest, wrapped in a H heated blanket and fed by the nurse in H view of the public. If the baby, is too Hl weak to take nourishment from a spoon H a silver tube is passed into the stom- H Unless loo weak it is unswathed from H Its bandages and dusted with rice pow- H dcr every day. H It must have been In the Incubator H forty days before it can take milk from H a bottle. By this time It begins to show H a faint semblance to human beings, and Hj to be alive to. the approach of meal H time. From the skinny, uncanny bit of H skin and bones it has. developed into a H plump and .rosy baby, with, most llke- H ly, a long lease on life. |