RT Journal T1 THe normal and pathological physiology of pregnancy JF Journal of the American Medical Association JO Journal of the American Medical Association YR 1949 FD May 21 VO 140 IS 3 SP 365 OP 365 DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900380105028 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900380105028 AB This book contains fourteen articles read at a conference sponsored by the Committee on Human Reproduction in New York City Jan. 30-31, 1948. The general subject under discussion was "The Normal and Pathological Physiology of Pregnancy," and the fourteen papers read were as follows: "Some Functional Activities of Trophoblast," by George B. Wislocki, Edward W. Dempsey and Don Wayne Fawcett; "Placental Dysfunction in Eclamptogenic Toxemias," by Ernest W. Page; "Patterns of Uterine Contractions in Women During Pregnancy," by S. R. M. Reynolds, L. M. Hellman and P. Bruns; "Pregnancy and the Thyroid Gland," by John P. Peters, Evelyn B. Man and Martin Heinemann; "The Excretion of Various Hormone Metabolites in Normal Pregnancy," by Eleanor Venning; "Urinary Excretion of Ketosteroids in Pregnancy," by Konrad Dobriner, Seymour Liberman, C. P. Rhoads and Howard C. Taylor Jr.; "Endocrine Patterns in Abortion," by Eleanor Delfs and G. E. Seegar Jones; "Experimental Studies on Nutrition