Popular Science Monthly 



in the flowing lymph and serum, a great 

 variety of monsters were born in tlie ex- 

 periments of Professor Werber. 



These experiments yielded defectives 

 and monstrosities, similar to the Bol- 

 linger baby, to mythical Cyclops, to 

 Siamese twins, and to creatures without 

 legs, without necks, minus eyes, with ab- 

 sent ear or entire faces, with open 

 spinals, open brains, with tails and with- 



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out tails, armless, and even clubbed feet. 

 Hydrocephalus, in other words water- 

 logged head, where the upper part of the 

 head is so elongated as to resemble an 

 Atlas, was. produced by alcohol and 

 other poisons in many embryos. In 

 many, parts of the organs were lost, 

 shrunken or undeveloped. Sometimes 

 only half of the body developed. Some 

 eggs were found to have one eye de- 



A calf which started to grow a second 

 body 



A puppy bom without fore legs. It 

 lived six weeks 



The skull of a defective pig. The ani- 

 mal had but one eye and no face. To 

 the left, a two-headed calf, one of the 

 common freaks of the old-fashioned 

 " side show " 



