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Popular Science Monthly in the flowing lymph and serum, a great variety of monsters were born in the experiments of Professor Werber.

These experiments yielded defectives and monstrosities, similar to the Bollinger baby, to mythical Cyclops, to Siamese twins, and to creatures without legs, without necks, minus eyes, with absent ear or entire faces, with open spinals, open brains, with tails and without 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-