rubber diaper

— Imagine before you now the dear little infant, with clothes wet around the hips, sometimes even up to the neck, not only with urine but stained by feces, freely giving off an offensive urinous and fecal odor combined with a gangrenous fetor arising from decomposition, not desiccation, of the cord. All this is not infrequently covered with a water-proof rubber diaper to protect the bed, notwithstanding the risk of the babe's life.