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THIS SAFETY GATE KEEPS THE OPERATOR FROM ACCIDENTAL INJURY
machine. All the mangle has been taken
out of it by a little steel fence running
along the entire length of the big roller
and right in front of it so that there
isn't the slightest danger of getting
fingers, hands, or sleeves drawn accidentally
into the machine.
With this little steel guard as shown
adjusted to the machine, terrible accidents,
so frequent in the past, become a
thing of the past.
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HELPING THE FIRST BREATH
CTATISTICS show that from four to
five per cent of new-born infants die,
and that about ninety per cent of these
deaths are due to suffocation or strangulation.
To the dismay of many surgeons
and obstetricians, the babies which die
in this way at birth are apparently normal,
with beating pulse, and possessed
of every faculty, yet they seem unable to
breathe, due to the failure of the lungs
to assume their natural function.
There is a resuscitator now manufactured
which brings these babies to life,
or rather, makes their first breath possible.
In operation it is similar to the pulmotor,
except that its delicate and regulated
mechanism makes rupture of the
lungs impossible, as in the case of the
pulmotor, in the zeal of trying to make
the patient breathe the operator pumps
away without carefully regulating the
mechanism, and the lung rupture is the
result.
This New Instrument Will Save Thousands of Babies'
Lives When Adopted for Universal Use