The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-03-06

WIN InOuRnL ana WIN ueeu
Thine uttermost kingdom defend.
Mary Mills West.
One of the principal and most
unique exhibits which will attract
scores OF mothers to the celebration
of Baby day, March 8, has arrived.
This exhibit is the infant lung
motor, one Of the simplest and most
efficient %lifesaving devices ever in
vented. 1t was designed for the pur-
pose OF preventing the death of ba-
bies by strangulation and its record
contains hundreds of successes with
out a failure.
The Lifesaving Devices company,
of Chicago, manufacturers of the
lungmotor and the infant lungmotor.
sent word to the members of the Wei
fare club that their organization had
been selected as one of many to which
one of the instruments would be
loaned for exhibition and demonstra-
ton purposes during the baby show.
When the week was set apart
throughout the country to educate
mothers in the care of their children
and to prevent the high mortality
among newly born babies, the Life
saving Devices company sent word
throughout the country that the Off
GERS were willing to loan one of their
devices to aid i'm spreading the edu-
eational campaign and to teach how
useless was the wholesale death of
babies through strangulation. The
! offer met an immediate response.
The number first offered was 100,
and this was increased to $50. and
still the requests for the device
poured in.
In all, the company will place on
exhibit 200 Of the devices with liter
ature explaining its operation. The
local committee in charge of Baby
week was among the first to respond
and was chosen by the company as
one al which the device was to be
demonstrated. When the exhibition
formally is opened Wednesday. the
infant lungmotor will be in place and
ready for use.
This device has only n purpose,
and that is to save the babies. One
of the greatest terrors of motherhood
Is that the mother will lose her infant
about whom she has built such high
hopes, before ever knowing the JOY
of the pressure Of baby hands. One
of the chief dangers which every ply
stefan must face in an obstetrical case
is thai the child will be born into the
world without breath. or Will strangle
to death before he can effect an open
ing of the air passages.
Asphyxia-neonatorum, the death oil
the newly born by strangulationr
probably has caused more deaths
than any other disease or condition
The infant born without breath OF
with a closure of the air passages has
Just one chance for life, and that is
the use of the infant lungmotor.
The instrument is small enough tc
be carried in the regular obstetrics
bag of the physician. 1t consists of a
double cylinder pump which places
air or air and oxygen in h lungs
and draws out the mucous membrane
which clogs the air passages. A face
mask is fitted over the mouth and
nostrils and can be held with one
hand while the physician or nurse
operates the pump with the other.
The device is fastened to the table
and is fitted into a metal germprocl
and d~ustproof case. and can be ster'
ilized without injury or inconven-
fence to the physician. So efficient
has it proven in cases where 1T has
been tried that it has been added &c
the equipment of many maternity
hospitals and has saved the lives OF
hundreds of babies.
One of the principal advantages OF
the infant lungmotor is that it obvi'
ates the necessity of using the ole
mouth to mouth" method by which
many physicians start breath into the
infants lungs. This method has beer
condemned by physicians and obstet
ricians as insanitary and frequently
the cause of infection.