An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Pigs born without eyeballs.

J. Hered., 24, 105-06., 1933.

Hale demonstrated that pregnant pigs fed a diet deficient in vitamin A gave birth to piglets with a variety of malformations, predominantly a lack of eyes. See also: Hale, F., 'The relation of vitamin A to anophthalmos in pigs,: Am J Opthalmol. 18 (1935) 1087–1093.



Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET, TERATOLOGY
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