Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — AIFREAK IN IMEDICAL SCIENCE. [ARTICLE]

AIFREAK IN IMEDICAL SCIENCE.

Raising babies of premature birth by the aid of a mechanical incubator is the latest freak of medical science at the woman’s hospital, Philadelphia. This process was put to a practical test ten days ago when Florence Ryal, an eight months child, was wrapped in swaddling clothes and placed in the incubator. The baby is thriving under the process and apparently enjoying the best of health. She weighed at the time of her birth about three pounds, or onehalf the weight of an average new-born child. The incubator has raised the baby’s weight up to five pounds within ten days. She rests in the incubator constanstiy, except when taken out to receive nourishment or is given a sponge bath. The former operation occurs three times a day and the latter twice.