Effects of exertion on hormone secretion.

natal bed rest may actually have a deleterious effect upon fetal growth and well-being and that until this basic problem is settled it is not possible to say whether the better results obtained by Dr. Varma and Professor Curzen in their decompressed patients are more likely to have been effected by the dcompression itself or by the lesser amount of enforced bed rest to which they were subjected.-I am, etc., D. D. MATTHEWS Sheppey General Hospital, Isle of Sheppey, Kent