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July 1981, Vol 135, No. 7 >
Article | July 1981

The First Published Report of an Incubator for Use in the Care of the Premature Infant (1857) FREE

Thomas E. Cone, MD
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Am J Dis Child. 1981;135(7):658-660. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1981.02130310062020.
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The first report to describe an incubator developed for care of the premature infant was written by Jean-Louis-Paul Denucé (1824-1889) of Bordeaux, France.1 About 400 words long, citing no references, and published in the Journal de Médecine de Bordeaux in 1857, it described a double-walled zinc tub in which the space between the walls was filled with warm water (Fig 1).

A similar double-walled metal incubator had been developed as early as 1835, at the suggestion of Johann Georg von Ruehl (1769-1846), physician-in-ordinary to the Czarina Feodorovna, wife of Czar Paul I, for use at the Imperial Foundling Hospital in St Petersburg.2,3 Around 1850, a modification of Ruehl's incubator (Fig 2) was in use at the Moscow Foundling Hospital, an institution founded in 1764 by order of Catherine the Great; by the mid-1850s, this hospital was said to have had more than 40 of these "warming tubs" (Wärmewannen

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Denucé P:  Berceau incubateur pour les enfants nés avant terme . J Med Bordeaux 1857;; 2:723-724.
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Doepp P:  Bemerkungen über einige Krankheiten der Säuglinge . Analekten Kinderkr 1835;; 3:150-168.
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Fürst L:  Über Wärmevorrichtungen für zu frügeborene oder lebensschwache Kinder . Dtsch Med Wochenschr 1887;;13:772-775.
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Marx FF: Die Entwicklung der Säuglings-incubatoren . Bonn, Verlag Siering, 1968;, p 28.
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Clementovsky A:  Die Zellgewebsverhärtung der Neugeborenen . Osterr Jahrb Padiatrik 1873;; 4:1-48.
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Credé C:  Über Erwärmungsgeräthe für frühgeborene und schwächliche kleine Kinder . Arch Gynäkol 1884;;24:128-147.
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Denucé P:  Nécrologie . Mem Bull Soc Med Chir , 1890;, pp 2-5.
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Hess JH: Premature and Congenitally Diseased Infants . Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1922;, p 130.

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Denucé P:  Berceau incubateur pour les enfants nés avant terme . J Med Bordeaux 1857;; 2:723-724.
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Doepp P:  Bemerkungen über einige Krankheiten der Säuglinge . Analekten Kinderkr 1835;; 3:150-168.
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Fürst L:  Über Wärmevorrichtungen für zu frügeborene oder lebensschwache Kinder . Dtsch Med Wochenschr 1887;;13:772-775.
Link to Article
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Marx FF: Die Entwicklung der Säuglings-incubatoren . Bonn, Verlag Siering, 1968;, p 28.
5 +
Clementovsky A:  Die Zellgewebsverhärtung der Neugeborenen . Osterr Jahrb Padiatrik 1873;; 4:1-48.
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Credé C:  Über Erwärmungsgeräthe für frühgeborene und schwächliche kleine Kinder . Arch Gynäkol 1884;;24:128-147.
Link to Article
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Denucé P:  Nécrologie . Mem Bull Soc Med Chir , 1890;, pp 2-5.
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Hess JH: Premature and Congenitally Diseased Infants . Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1922;, p 130.

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