The diseases of infants and children . (o^ (6) Fig. 8.—Comparison of the infant (a) and of the adult (5). {After Henke, GerhardVs Handb. d. Kinderkr.,I, 248; 249.) resulting from pressure during labor, generally disappears by the 10th dayor earlier (see p. 271.) Owing to the yielding nature of the bones of the skull and the absenceof union of the sutures the shape may be altered by long-continuedpressure as by that during labor, or by the child lying too much upon theback or side, thus flattening the occiput or one of the parietal distortion is usually only of temporary
The diseases of infants and children . (o^ (6) Fig. 8.—Comparison of the infant (a) and of the adult (5). {After Henke, GerhardVs Handb. d. Kinderkr.,I, 248; 249.) resulting from pressure during labor, generally disappears by the 10th dayor earlier (see p. 271.) Owing to the yielding nature of the bones of the skull and the absenceof union of the sutures the shape may be altered by long-continuedpressure as by that during labor, or by the child lying too much upon theback or side, thus flattening the occiput or one of the parietal distortion is usually only of temporary duration. Fontanelles.—The posterior fontanelle can be felt open until the ageof 6 or 8 weeks. The anterior, of rhomboidal shape, increases in sizeaccording to the views of most observers until the Dth month, owing to * Die Characteristik des Kopfes nach dem Entwickelungsgesezte desselben. Bed.,1845. Ref. Henke, Gerhardts Handb. d. Kinderkr., 1877, I, Jahrb. f. lunderh., 1908, LXVIII, 34 THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN the fa
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