PEDIATRICS Vol. 69 No. 6 June 1982, pp. 723
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A NATIONAL COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF PREMATURE-INFANT CARE

Audrey B. Davis PhD1

1 Medical Sciences Division, The National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560

An effort is under way to establish a collection of materials which will trace the development of perinatal-care technology in The National Museum of American History at Smithsonian Institution. Readers of Pediatrics are urged to cooperate in this national effort to locate materials of historical interest in back rooms of hospitals and in private collections.

The material of interest ranges from incubators (Lion-type used in incubator-baby exhibits to the present-day models), resuscitation and ventilating devices (delivery-room apparatus, Bloxom Air-Lock, rocking bed, respirators...), feeding items (gavage equipment, nasal spoons, indwelling tubes...), photographs, hospital records (statistical reports, examples of patient records...) and equipment used in landmark investigations (calorimetry, oxygen consumption...).