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Month of Birth and Gametopathy

An Investigation into Patients with Down’s Klinefelter’s and Turner’s Syndrome

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Mental and Physical Handicaps in connection with Overripeness Ovopathy

Abstract

In many countries, both in the northern and the southern hemisphere, the monthly birth frequency of children with congenital aberrations has been investigated. From these data a striking phenomenon becomes apparent: children with congenital aberrations of the central nervous system, facial clefts, stenoses and atresias of the digestive tract, hip dysplasias, and many other anomalies are born more frequently in the winter and, to a less apparent degree, in the late summer. This ‘seasonal influence’ has already been subject to serious consideration as demonstrated, for instance, by the fact that the British Medical Journal has devoted two editorial articles (1958, 1962) to it, in which it was strongly advised that couples who had already produced one child with anencephaly or spina bifida should limit their following conceptions to the winter months as a means of prophylaxis.

Huize ‘Maria Roepaan’, Observation and Treatment Centre for the Mentally Deficient, Ottersum (L), The Netherlands.

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Jongbloet, P.H. (1971). Month of Birth and Gametopathy. In: Mental and Physical Handicaps in connection with Overripeness Ovopathy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2958-2_5

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