. Lessons on the anatomy, physiology and hygiene of infancy and childhood for junior students. Consisting of extracts from lectures given at Rush medical college . 6. SKULL IK NKW 6 Showing Tympanic Membrane and notch of Eivinus. CHAPTER I. ANATOMY OF THE NEW BORN. The infants integument at birth is usually more or lesscovered with a thick whitish substance, the vernix caseosa,which is most abundant in the flexures and depressions, andupon the scalp. It consists of a mixture of cast-off epi-thelium, lanugo and the product of the sebaceous glands. Usually upon deliveiy the color is a
. Lessons on the anatomy, physiology and hygiene of infancy and childhood for junior students. Consisting of extracts from lectures given at Rush medical college . 6. SKULL IK NKW 6 Showing Tympanic Membrane and notch of Eivinus. CHAPTER I. ANATOMY OF THE NEW BORN. The infants integument at birth is usually more or lesscovered with a thick whitish substance, the vernix caseosa,which is most abundant in the flexures and depressions, andupon the scalp. It consists of a mixture of cast-off epi-thelium, lanugo and the product of the sebaceous glands. Usually upon deliveiy the color is a dusky blue, owingto venous stasis from the long pressure to which the infanthas been subjected. After a few full inspirations this colorchanges to the boiled lobster hue. About the third dayan exfoliation of the skin begins, which continues for aweek or ten During this time the hyperasmia ismarked; this gradually subsiding, the skin assumes anicteroid tint. The texture of the skin is very delicate and the downygrowth, lanugo, which was more abundant in the sixth andseventh months of intra-uterine life, still covers the body. The margin of the nails proj
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