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]\Iany of the visitors at the hospital 

 treated the baby, which lay in a little 

 bundle in a private room, as if it were 

 uncanny. Dr. Haiselden alone treated 

 it like a human being. He looked into 

 the little twisted face and patted its 

 cheeks. 



"It would be a moral wrong to let it 

 live. It seems to me that a city which 

 allows a Blackhand outrage a week, a 

 thousand abortions a day, and an auto- 

 mobile accident every round of the 

 clock is hardly in a position to criticize 



Popular Science Monthly 

 Can Science Prevent Defectives? 



The most serious question, however, 

 is how to prevent just such monstrosities 

 as the unhappy Bollinger infant and to 

 this end Dr. E. J. W'erber, and inde- 

 pendently Professor F. E. Chichester of 

 the Zoological Department of Rutgers 

 College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 

 have directed their experiments and dis- 

 coveries. 



Before the eggs are made fertile and 

 begin to form the unborn baby, colt, 



Should these children ever have been born? To the left is a cretin; beside her a type 

 technically known as a Mongolian idiot; next comes a micro-cephalic, who is a burden to 

 himself and to the institution in which he is confined; the last on the line is a water- 

 brained (hydro-cephalicj girl for whom society has no use 



a man who holds that death is [)refer- 

 able to life to a defective." 



Dr. John B. Murpliy, former presi- 

 dent of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion, and physicians and professional 

 men generally, took sides with Dr. 

 Haiselden. But his critics were just as 

 numerous. 



Dr. Rosalie M. Ladova commented : 

 "A life is a life and I wish Dr. Haisel- 

 den had stepped out and let someone 

 else operate.'' 



puppy, or other animal, these investiga- 

 tions proved it to be possible to induce 

 such changes in the eggs or early em- 

 bryos l)y inoculation into the blood 

 stream of the mother the poison of dia- 

 betes, of kidney diseases, of typhoid 

 fever, and other poisons and waste ma- 

 terials, so that deformed offspring would 

 be developed and born. With two sub- 

 rtances, butyric acid and acetone, chem- 

 icals that are produced in the blood of 

 those who have sugar disease and sugar 



