Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-06-22
%AA,AAf%N% THE VERY CHEAPEST STORE ON EARTH
SAVED BY INCUBATORS.
The Lives of Infants Preserved
 by Artificial Means.
scisnes's Substitute for Nature Doing Wonders for Prematurely Born NarslinRs in New York
 City.

He was incubated," ," the proud moth
 CT Of some great man of the future will
 say of her son, For the baby inc Ibator
 is 8 success and has come to stay. The
 doctors declare that incubators have
 already been the means of saving the
 lives of one hundred infants in New
 York. In fact, the newborn baby who
 under old-fashioned methods has no
 chance of living, now, If put into an in- cubator, stands about an even chance
 Of becoming 8 healthy, growing young ster. Baby incubators are now in use in two hospitals in the city.
 A cozier place for a baby could nos be imagined, says the New York World. Here the embryo citizens have every opportunity the world affords to hold on to life and to grow healthy and strong, while in the tenements where their parents live the lives of the fraH little things would have been snuffed out in less than & day after they first saw the light.
 The incubator Is used only for pre1 maturely-born babies and for babies which are so weak thatothe wise young woman doctors are pretty sure they will die if left in the open air. Strange 1y enough, the incubator is shaped something like coffin, while it's par tieular aim Is to keep babies out of cof- fins. There are two kinds of baby in- cubators, and they differ somewhat in construction. The babies are taken out of the ineubators at the Maternity hos pital to get their nourishment directly 4ron their mothers, who live la the building; but the mother in the Post Graduate hospital may not see her of spring from one weeks end to an- other.
 Therefore the youngster must be fed by artificial means, and, after much experiment. and study, the doctors have completed an incubator by means of which the baby is nourished without being removed from it's snug little nest.
 The moment baby for the incubator arrives at the Maternity hospital the white-eapped purses and the doctors gather about the little wooden box, which rests upon stand some three or four feet high. Baby is swathed very carefully in warm clothes, and is then weighed, clothes and all, before he Is laid inside and the glass cover Is placed over him.
 Underneath the board upon which the little mite rests are three bottles that are kept constantly full of hot water. The air passing in from below flows over these and through an open ing in the board into the chamber where the Infant is A thermometer keeps the attendant continually in- formed as to the temperature, and 8 little aluminium anenomater In the small chimney through which the air escapes, and which furnishes the draught that keeps the baby supplied with fresh air, always indicates wheth- CT or not the circulation of the air Is good.
 The weight is very important mat ter. One baby In the incubator Is weighed every day. A healthy baby should show slight diurnal increase in weight, and if the doctors find that the diminutive patient Is not growing heavier they seek remedies for his in- This is the truest method [ they have of ascertaining the baby's | progress, and therefore the greatest [ care Is taken that it's clothes shall al- ways be of the same weight as two or three ounces Is considerable increase tor young man or woman whose ag- yregate weight is only six, seven or eight pounds. About seventy per cent. of the 'fncubated" babies have lived, ind at least fifty per cent of these would have died but for the incubator.
 The incubator which will be In the babies ward of the new building of the post-Graduate hospital is great im- orovement on that at the Maternity hospital, although it lacks the senti- mental surro undings of the one in harge of the young woman doctors
 The incubator is set upon bicycle wheels, so 1t may be moved about when yer desired. The fresh air is heated y passing between two strata of hot l Vater. rises mp both at the head and ' he foot of the mattress and is kept in t lotion by an aluminium fan run by ' thus preventing any possi- c ility of the little patients suffering 1 ,r want of air. There is also tube ,r the supply of oxygen, liberal quan- ties of which are good for babies who | re hanging on to life by the merest n tread, and 1t is believed this improve l ent will save Il great many lives that [ ould have been lost in the old incu- 1. ltor n By means of g clever mechanical de- U ce the weight of the baRy is alWaya !