A Montana baby was taking shape in its mother's womb. Along came a cyclone which shocked the mother and insulted the embryo. When the baby was born it was a hermaphrodite.
Similar sequences of conception and storm produce babies with cleft palates in Maine, babies with uncompleted spines (spina bifida) in Vermont, babies with genital defects in the U. S. Northwest.
A rational explanation of those regional anomalies, which Professor William Ferdinand Petersen, University of Illinois pathologist, elaborated last week in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, has had to...
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