A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 609.—Cephalhematoma. Fig. 610.— Fig. 611.—Longitudinal section through a cephalhematoma: a% Ihira mater/, cranium; c, pericranium; (,(•, beginning hyperostosis; <\ scalp (Davis). before birth. It is due to a subpericranial hemorrhage, whichlifts the pericranium from the bone, irritates it, and stimulates itto bone-production, thus giving rise to a bony sensation at thelifted edges of the pericranium, and later to a peculiar cracklingor crepitus over the surface of the tumor, due to the movementof the thin bone-plates on one another. Non-interf
A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 609.—Cephalhematoma. Fig. 610.— Fig. 611.—Longitudinal section through a cephalhematoma: a% Ihira mater/, cranium; c, pericranium; (,(•, beginning hyperostosis; <\ scalp (Davis). before birth. It is due to a subpericranial hemorrhage, whichlifts the pericranium from the bone, irritates it, and stimulates itto bone-production, thus giving rise to a bony sensation at thelifted edges of the pericranium, and later to a peculiar cracklingor crepitus over the surface of the tumor, due to the movementof the thin bone-plates on one another. Non-interference is thetreatment, except when the hemorrhage is excessive or suppura-tion occurs. The former may be controlled by pressure and INJURIES TO THE IXFANT DURING LABOR, 803 cold ; the latter requires incision and drainage, with strict spite of the greatest care, septic meningitis may develop. Contused and lacerated wounds, usually tin- result of aforceps operation, are to be treated on general surgical prin-ciples. Sloughs.— The vitality of the scalp may he
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