Obstetrics
Teratology in cultural documents and today reviewed
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 10th, 2005
"Teratology is the science of congenital malformations. The incidence of birth defects amounts to 2-3%, but it doubles postnatally because many dysfunctions are not discernible at birth. Congenital malformations were already known in ancient cultures, records from Assyrian and Babylonian astrologists as well as from physicians and philosophers of the Hippocratic era have reported it. In medieval times they were recognized as supernatural phenomena, terata, from which the term teratology is derived. In the eyes of the superstitious...
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