A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 159.—Caput succedaneum. Male, two hours old. (Rotch.) course, with the position and presentation, and the conditionalways disappears in a day or two without treatment of any sort. 302 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. Another swelling of the scalp which resembles caput succe-daneum in certain respects is caused by an effusion of bloodbetween the parietal bone of one side and the overlying is seldom present when the child is born, and may not benoticed for two or three days, when the existence of a swellingwill be ob
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 159.—Caput succedaneum. Male, two hours old. (Rotch.) course, with the position and presentation, and the conditionalways disappears in a day or two without treatment of any sort. 302 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. Another swelling of the scalp which resembles caput succe-daneum in certain respects is caused by an effusion of bloodbetween the parietal bone of one side and the overlying is seldom present when the child is born, and may not benoticed for two or three days, when the existence of a swellingwill be observed, and it will be seen to increase gradually insize until about the seventh day after labor, when it remainsstationary for a time and then slowly disappears. This condi-tion is termed cephalhematoma (Fig. 160), and usually. Fig. 160.—Double cephalhematoma. Infant four days old. (Rotch.) ends in recovery without treatment. It may be due to press-ure in normal labor, or by forceps, but it is also occasionallyseen in breech cases in which no instruments were used nor pro-longed pressure exerted on the after-coming head. These casesare not common, and require no further mention. The diseases of the new-born infant are ophthalmia, icterus,spina bifida, mastitis, vaginal hemorrhage in female infants,umbilical hernia, umbilical vegetations, congenital cyanosis, andtetanus. OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. 303 Ophthalmia neonatorum is a disease of the eyes charac-terized by a profuse purulent discharge due to infection fromthe genital canal at the time of birth and usually of gonorrhcealorigin. The disease appears two or three days after birth, pro-vided the infection occurred at this time, but as the septic mattermay be introduced into the eye at a later period by dirty clothsand neglect of the proper care of the child
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