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Sir,—Dr. McBride (Dec. 16) describes congenital abnormalities in babies delivered of women who have taken thalidomide. I have seen 52 malformed infants whose mothers had taken ‘Contergan’ in early pregnancy, and I understand that contergan is a synonym of thalido-mide, others being ‘Distaral,’’ softenon’, ‘Neurosedyn’, ‘Isomin’, ‘Kedavon’, ‘Telargan’, and’ sedalis’.
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Lenz, W. (1962). Thalidomide and Congenital Abnormalities. In: Persaud, T.V.N. (eds) Problems of Birth Defects. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6621-8_28
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