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Last week, a keen-minded Harvard physician offered the most convincing explanation yet of mongolism. It seems, said Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls at the New York Academy of Medicine, to be the result of an injury or shock to the fetus at about the eighth week of pregnancy. This does not mean that the cause is always the same type of injury or shock. In fact, said Dr. Ingalls, the trouble with researchers who have been looking for a single, simple cause is that they were like the three blind men describing an elephant: one found it all foot, another...
...conclusions about "a blood-consciousness which exists in us independently of the ordinary mental consciousness . . . If a lizard falls on the breast of a pregnant woman, then the blood-being of the lizard passes with a shock into the blood-being of the woman, and is transferred to the fetus . . . Do you know what science says about these things...
...told her to take it easy; there was nothing much they could do about it then. Her trouble was that the by-pass between the aorta and the main artery to the lungs failed to close some time after birth. The open by-pass is vital to the fetus (fetal blood does not get oxygen from the lungs before birth), but it is harmful in later life because it puts an extra strain on the heart...
...Pictures that showed a fetus thumbing its nose were accidental, they conceded...
Mexican prisoners scorn anything like escape art. Instead of landscapes, birds, or flowers, most of them daub away at private horrors. Samples: a half-human fetus turning away in fright from a street, a huge fist clutching eight cadavers, skeletons, three starved men craning their necks to catch driblets from a single spoon. One lifer, condemned for the murder of his wife and children, had dreamed up a lovely woman trailing blood across his cell floor...