smuga@hogpd.UUCP (J.SMUGA) (02/19/85)
About infants sleeping on unshorn sheepskins: I'm glad I'm not the one who has to wash the skeepskin. How do you plan to keep it clean?
essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs) (02/20/85)
> > About infants sleeping on unshorn sheepskins: > > I'm glad I'm not the one who has to wash the skeepskin. > How do you plan to keep it clean? The one I spoke of (with the synthetic backing) was machine washable and dryable. -- Ed Sachs AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxl!essachs
frye@cuuxa.UUCP (frye) (06/07/85)
A good friend of mine said people used to use deer skins for bedridden patients. Deer hair is hollow. Each hair shaft has an air space inside. Better insulation through the cold winter months. Since this hollow hair keeps air under the patient, the skin breaths better and helps elliminate bedsores. Sheep wool is not hollow. But, the thick matt of the wool is bound to trap a lot of air. Since air is air which is bound to hold a bit of oxygen, and sheep shins are more readily obtainable, and they hold a lot of air next to the skin...... Bob's your uncle, as the British would say. Be careful tho, some folks are alergic to wool products. Sheeps is wool products, me thinks. Is that really your son, George? How come he looks so much like the milkman? Have you hugged your tricycle motor lately? T. R. Frye