. Diseases of children. t the tumorbe not injured by pressure or manipulation, and that the scalp is keptclean and free from possible infection. Any local injury or infectionof the soft parts, bones, brain membranes, or brain substance wouldnecessitate appropriate surgical treatment. An internal cephalhema-toma producing symptoms which persist calls for surgical strict antisepsis a small incision may be made in the scalp,the sac opened, the blood expressed, and an antiseptic pad firmlyapplied. This has the advantage of securing the immediate removalof the blood, and prevents
. Diseases of children. t the tumorbe not injured by pressure or manipulation, and that the scalp is keptclean and free from possible infection. Any local injury or infectionof the soft parts, bones, brain membranes, or brain substance wouldnecessitate appropriate surgical treatment. An internal cephalhema-toma producing symptoms which persist calls for surgical strict antisepsis a small incision may be made in the scalp,the sac opened, the blood expressed, and an antiseptic pad firmlyapplied. This has the advantage of securing the immediate removalof the blood, and prevents the thickening that may persist afterabsorption without operation. Anencephalia.—Anencephalia means, literally, absence of brain;and the monsters to whose condition this term is applied are bornwith the vault of the craniinn missing, owing, it is believed, to the BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD 81 production of an abnormally sharp cranial flexure in the a reddish, fleshy mass, which may contain rudimentary brain. V\r,. S.—Anencephalia.
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