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Solution. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., because the price of haircuts had gone up to $1.25, Harvey Ingalls, 22, hurried down to the recruiting office, signed up for the Navy.
Eyes, Ears & Nose. All victims of mongolism have three things in common: 1) mental deficiency, 2) short heads, 3) faces which seem to have been flattened (actually, growth is arrested). Besides these constants, other defects are found so often in mongolism that Dr. Ingalls got a vital clue from analyzing...
"The fetus," suggested Dr. Ingalls in explanation, "has been blighted by what might be called intrauterine drought . . . [It may be] a metabolic drought, a biochemical upset, transient vitamin or enzyme deficiency, or oxygen lack." The likelihood that oxygen shortage may be the villain in many cases is heightened, said Dr...
Skull, Lip & Palate. To test his theory, Dr. Ingalls and colleagues at Harvard's School of Public Health took 300 mice in batches of 20, subjected them to oxygen lack (artificial "high altitude") for five hours on certain days of their pregnancies. Mice, unlike men, do not suffer from...
Even if Dr. Ingalls' challenging theory is proved right, a greater challenge will face doctors and public-health workers in putting the theory into practice and preventing mongolism. Heredity may still be a predisposing factor, he believes, but not a decisive one. And that is the basis for hope...