Stories by Theodore H. Ingalls

It is now known that many of them are caused, not by hereditary factors, but by injuries during gestation. The kind of deformity is related to the time of early life at which the injury occurs

During the past 15 years there has been a little-known epidemic of a form of blindness called retrolental fibroplasia. How its cause was discovered is an intricate tale of medical detection

Although it is unlikely that this unhappy condition can ever be cured, some new experiments with animals suggest that it and many other congenital defects may someday be prevented