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Polio is not a deformer of the unborn, and usually is not deadly if the mother's infection comes late in pregnancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Worrying, fretting, unbridled passions, petulance, discontent, every dishonest act, every falsehood, every feeling of envy, jealousy, fear,—each has its effect on the system, and acts deleteriously like a poison or a deformer of the body.

From Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Marden, Orison Swett

Opposite to Ormuzd is Ahriman, the bad, the dark, the deformer of all.

From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Besant, Annie Wood