The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-23
The Incubated Infant.

The question, "What shall be done
with the next-dOor baby?" has ut last
bsen answered. 1t shall b, incubated.
Even the next door parent could not
object to this remedy, since it Is pri-
marily designed for the benefit of the
infant, and the delightful results TO
the neighborhood are purely Incl
dental. The formula for the pre-
scription comes from France, where
it has been tested with gratifying
success by DR.. Tavernier, whe must
hereafter to reckOned one of the
worlds greatest b~enefactors. Under
his ingenious process sickly children
become healthy, and disconnected
ones cease to complain. There is no
more walking with them at night,
and that regular see-saw of the rocker
which penetrates partition walls, and
becomes thunder when executed on
the floor overhead, can, with stage
coaches and bob-wigs, pass into the
bygone. There need be no anxiety
about teething, no disturbance be-
cause of collie /; the incubating infant
attends to these matters for itself, and
energies from the incubator fully
equipped for childhood's trials, hav-
ing had no experience of a baby's
tribulations. The Incubator itself is
q very simple affair. It is a box
covered with q brass slide, aud kept
at . temperature of s. degrees by
means of hot water. This is placed
in a dark room, and the child pro-
vided with a nursing bottle. Here,
in that serene contemplation, dear
alike to Buddha and 10 infants, it
passes the early months of its exist
ence. No one trots 1t, no one bangs
it on the back, nor holds it so that its
loose, unbalanced head rolls helpless
" from side to side. The light does
not shine into its winking eyes ; it is
not tortured by stiff embroidery nor
thrown into fits by pins. Under
such beneficent influences it thrives
as a young animal should. 1t comes
out strong of limb and ready to walk.
and has Outgrown its little bed. 1t
has escaped SO much that it has &C.
cumulated q reserve fund Of staying
power, and meets childhood with
equanimity. 1t sOons learns to talk,
and when it comes into the family
circle it il still an infant, but it is
reasonable-it is jolly. 1t GAS no sad
rec~ollections, no suspicious and sud-
den alarms. The relations have
taken ne advantage of it, and it
knows nothing Of the modification
of being put on exhibition and
praised by the false neighbor. The
experiments of DR.. Tavernier have
been OH a large scale, and he had at
one time 800 infants reposing in their
little ovens. In the Founding Hos
pital, where he made his experiments,
the confusion of q bedlam was sue
ceeded by the serenity of a Quaker
meeting. The babies averaged the
age of eight months and the weight
Of sixteen pounds. Puny, sickly,
cross, they went to their little beds
they drank from their bottles, they
they meditated, they threw +,
their arms and legs about they had
new views of life. They stayed in
this seclusion six months and came
out heavy and strong. One had +.
died: one had been reclaimed by re- /.
pentant parents. but the 35S remain
Ing charged into the rooms like chill =,
dren of three years. They expert
msnted in molten, aud in q week
were on foot walking. They began
to talk, and when a select committee F,
Of twelve, appointed by the French :
Government, went to investigate :
this astounding discovery, who can :
doubt but that they could have given :
1t intelligent verbal testimony? One O
Of the beauties of this experiment lies :
in its simplicity. There is nothing :
expensive nor difficult in the arrange !
The warm little box would ,
not cost as much as a silver rattle 1
here need be nc nurse on constant n
1aty the coat and cap, the number =
ess dresses are supplanted by a little :
wrapper the carriage is not needed ; y
he mother can go into society, and, :
40 longer on spasmodic guard, can :
1--WE her husband her society in the !
His slumbers are unbroken y
'ither by walls or soothing, and the !
ncubated infant is a %wellspring of >
a perennial joy. Louise :
IN the Continent. /.