570 Prolongation of Pregnancy 



by Dr. C. K. Weichert working Avith the rat (for the latter see Anat. Recrd. 8i[supp.]:28, 1941), 

 that estrogens favor the attachment of the vesicle at normal time and shorten the gestation 

 period of the lactating female to normal. 



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