The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-07-04
Joseph's Arrival.

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Joseph's Arrival.
While Mr.. Robinson's apparatus was ex-
cnlIent for the incubation of baccilll, 1t
never occurred to him that it would be
equally available for babies, and the 1act
would probably never have been brought
to his attention had it not been tor a
calamity which befell the Greyert family
last Friday.
Mrs. Grevert, who is hardly eighteen
years old and was only married laSt De-
cpmber is far from robust and on FRIDAY
she so overtaxed herself that it became
necessary to summon II physician
DR.. j. Moorhead, of Eighteenth street
and Second avenue, was sent TOT, Dut pe-
fore his arrival Mrs. Grevert had become
the mother of a tiny boy-so tiny ana np-
parently so lifeless that the kind women
about the house laid it aside as something
unworthy of attention.
But the doctor detected faint signs OF
life and advised that the little mite be
christened without waste Of time ms was
done and the child was again given up Tor
dead.
After the doctor had gone the women III
attendance, in response to the mothers APP
pCals tried hard to restore animation TO
the child. Soon their efforts were rewarded
and faint signs of respiration were OBJ
served.
Mr.. Robinson's Idea.
1t began to fail the following morning,
however, and then it was that Mr.. Robin
son weat to the rescue. 1t occurred to him
that there was in his shop an incubator.
which he had built for DIR. Byron and
which had served for Il numbe- OF expert
ments in germ cultivation.
He thought if the infant were placed IN
There and the temperature steadily mann
tanned at blood heat there was Il chance
that the little life might be saved. The IN
cubator consisted of Il metallic box chest,
two feet long by ten inches deep and eight
cen wide, with an adjustable glass top and
water and air chambers arranged so THAT
an ordinary lamp would suffice to maintain
a moist heat of any desired temperature
He took the incubator up to Mrs. Gre
yert's room and made within Il cosy nest
of softest wool in which he laid the child.
Then he regulated the heat to a tempera-
ture of about 1913 degrees, raised the glass
lid the merest trife and awaited results.
He was soon rewarded aud the babe BE-
gan to breathe regularly and move its tiny
limbs Within Il few hours its movements
had become so active and it had begun to
stuff the cotton wool into its mouth at
such Il rate that il was necessary to take
ii out and cover the cotton with Il soft
linen cloth.
How He Takes Food.
The young gentleman had got sutfl-
GENTLY strong grip on life by Saturday
question of administering nourlshment
arose.
Again Mr.. Robinson rose to the occasion
with an imprOyised apparatus in the shape
of a medicine dropper, such as is used to
fill fountain pens and by means of which
about two tablespoonfuls an hour of milk
were administered.
1t was abundantly evident on Sunday
that Joseph had come to stay, and DR..
Byron was sent for TO view the novel ap-
plicati0n of his incubator.
He declared that the child was doing
finely and that too muck credit could not
be given to Foster Father Robinson.
When | called on Mrs Grcyert last night
| found her sitting beside the queer cradle
in which her first born is to pass the FIRST
few weeks of its existence.
"Joseph's all right" she said. Look ut
him
| found Joseph an exceedingly small per-
son, only sixteen and half inches long
and weighing two and three quarter pounds.
He is two inches longer and three-Quarters
of a pound heavier than he was when Mr.
Robinson took him in hand. His little arms
and legs, hardly thicker than q woman's
finger were doubled up in uncomfortable
pastures and his features bore distress
ingly serious expression. He was dressed
for the first time yesterday.