A nurse's handbook of obstetrics . Fig. 160.—Warm bath combined with tongue traction. stage, where the membranes rupture before the os is fullydilated, causes a swelling of the scalp at the point where it isencircled by the cervix. This is called caput succedaneum (Fig. 162), and in its milder forms is very common. It is due. Fig. 161.—Facial paralysis of new-born child. (Ahlfeld.) it is the more marked the longer the first stage is delayed. Theportion of scalp rendered cedematous in this manner varies, of

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