The meconium is black, and when the infant is effectually eased of it, the subsequent stools are of a whitish cast.
A few minutes after birth the infant discharges urine, and this generally when it feels the heat of the fire: and sometimes also the meconium or excrement which have been collected in the intestines during its residence in the matrix.
The anal orifice may be so minute as not to allow the feces to escape; or the aperture may be occluded by a membrane, through which the meconium may be seen; or the anus may be entirely absent.
Haeckel and Buhl found concretions of meconium in a new-born child, and fecal concretions, intestinal stones, are far more frequently encountered than foreign bodies.
The rectum is not involved, and when the child strains the contained meconium causes bulging of the part, which disappears under slight pressure, but reappears when again free.
Whatever meconium is within reach of the finger should be carefully removed.
Calves sometimes suffer from constipation immediately after birth when the meconium that accumulates in the bowels before birth is not passed.
When the fæcal matter is free from microbes, as is the case with the meconium of the fœtus or new-born infant, it is not a source of danger to the organism.
In the first day, before the child has taken any food whatever, there is to be found in the meconium a varied flora, composed of several species of microbes.
The meconiumis more abundant, and lower down in the intestines.
The bones are tolerably firm, and the meconiumcollects in the large intestines.
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