. A treatise on obstetrics for students and practitioners . Forcible extraction by the breech. Child stillborn, with fractured skull. (Rosinski.) When, however, the head is subjected to long-continued pressure upona given area, the small bloodvessels of the brain in the correspondingportion become ruptured, and intracerebral hemorrhage results. Thesame effect is produced upon any of the large viscera of the body bylong-continued pressure. Multiple extravasation of blood is observedin the liver, kidneys, spleen, lungs, peritoneum, and pleural mem-branes. If but little blood be thus lost, the in
. A treatise on obstetrics for students and practitioners . Forcible extraction by the breech. Child stillborn, with fractured skull. (Rosinski.) When, however, the head is subjected to long-continued pressure upona given area, the small bloodvessels of the brain in the correspondingportion become ruptured, and intracerebral hemorrhage results. Thesame effect is produced upon any of the large viscera of the body bylong-continued pressure. Multiple extravasation of blood is observedin the liver, kidneys, spleen, lungs, peritoneum, and pleural mem-branes. If but little blood be thus lost, the infant may recover ; butif a considerable amount has been expelled, the child will usually perish.(Plate XXVII.) Where the head is subjected to direct violence by theblade of the forceps or by the promontory of the sacrum the skull maybe fractured and the bloodvessels of the meninges ruptured. The scalpmay be severely bruised by pressure to such an extent that sloughing PLATE XXVII. Fig. FIG. 2. FIG. 3.
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