Also, in conjunction with Philip Levine's separate work which helped identify the Rh factor as a major cause of erythroblastosis fetalis, or Rh disease, he was able to help solve a major cause of infant fatality.
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In 1932, he and Dr . Kenneth Blackfan discovered that four diseases of infants were manifestations of a sole syndrome, erythroblastosis fetalis, also called Rh disease, a condition that at that time affected about 1 in 200 babies, killing or irreversibly harming half of them.
