A Medical Invention

Of an Ann Arbor Professor of Value in Army Hospitals.

Prof. Oscar LeSeure, who has been at Sternberg hospital, Chickamauga Park, as brigade surgeon, has resigned and will return to his work as a member of the homeopathic faculty of the University of Michigan.
Being given his choice between promotion and going to Cuba, or resigning and returning to Ann Arbor, he preferred the latter.
White doing hospital duty Mr. LeSuere devised an apparatus for reducing the temperature in typhoid fever cases. It is an arrangement for giving in ice bath without removing the patient from the bed or getting the attendant or bed clothing wet.
The apparatus consists principally of a large frame, similar to a picture frame, made of a cloth bag, 10 inches in diameter, stuffed with cotton. Besides the frame there is a large rubber blanket.

The cotton frame is placed over the patient as he lies in bed, and the robber blanket over the frame, being pressed down inside the latter, so as to make a large rectangular basin with a rubber bottom. This can be adjusted. over the patient so that the rubber bottom presses against any part of the body.
Crushed ice is then heaped on the blanket, through which the cold passes readily to the patient. The water from the melting ice settles in the lowest places in the blanket and there remains.
When the temperature of the patient has been sufficiently lowered the blanket with ice and water may be gathered up and removed without danger of spilling.

The device may be used anywhere, but the simplicity of its construction and the ease and rapidity with which it may be applied make it of especial value in the work of the field hospital.