A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . riG. Human foetus at the end of the third month. Three-fifths actual size.(Garrigues.) 52 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF Fig. 26.—Skeleton of infant at term, showing large head, large anterior fontanelle,small thorax, cartilaginous sternum, Jilted pelvis, and bow-legs. Warren Museum, HarvardUniversity. (Rotch.) THE FCETUS. 53 a pound. Faint evidences of the eyelashes and eyebrows haveappeared, and the skin is darker and firmer. Daring the seventh month development is extremely rapid,and by the end of this period the fcetus
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . riG. Human foetus at the end of the third month. Three-fifths actual size.(Garrigues.) 52 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF Fig. 26.—Skeleton of infant at term, showing large head, large anterior fontanelle,small thorax, cartilaginous sternum, Jilted pelvis, and bow-legs. Warren Museum, HarvardUniversity. (Rotch.) THE FCETUS. 53 a pound. Faint evidences of the eyelashes and eyebrows haveappeared, and the skin is darker and firmer. Daring the seventh month development is extremely rapid,and by the end of this period the fcetus is about fifteen incheslong and weighs from three to four pounds. The eyelids cannow be opened, and the skin is firmer, lighter in color thanbefore, and covered with a greasy, sebaceous deposit, calledvernix caseosa which is most abundant in the folds of theintegument, and especially in the axillae and groin. This isprobably the earliest time at which a child can be born with anyreasonable prospect of living. During the eighth month development is slower, and by theend of the ninth, or at full term, the infant is plump, com-pletely formed, and ready to perform the functions of respi
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