HOWARD C. TAYLOR, JR. Medicine, through its long history, has continually striven to enlarge its scope. Success in these endeavors has come in sudden bursts with long intervals of relative quiescence between. As a result of the spectacular discoveries in the basic sciences during the last decades, medicine is again in a period of revolutionary advance in many fields. One of these is the subject of this report, "The Intrauterine Patient." Until recently the fetus signalized his presence only by the mother's enlarging abdomen and by his own movements, perceived by the preg nant woman herself and evident to the examining midwife and physician. Later, the sounds of the fetal heart heard by auscultation and the varia tions in its rate became the single important means by which the welfare of the fetus might be roughly determined and threats to his survival per haps detected. Otherwise, the fetus remained isolated, his condition unknown and any therapy consequent on diagnosis, except for the induc tion or termination of labor, nonexistent.

Morphologic and Cytogenetic Methods in the Diagnosis of Fetal Conditions

Deprivation of the Human Fetus: Forms, Causes and Significance
The Future of Antepartum Morphologic Studies
Placental Biopsy: Results, Limitations and Topographical Differences
Prenatal Sex-Chromatin and Chromosome Analysis
Metabolic Performance of the Placenta and Fetus
Cellular Growth of the Placenta as an Indicator of Abnormal Growth
The Role of the Placenta in the Synthesis and Metabolism of Proteins
Estimation of Rates of Production and Transfer of Hormones in Pregnancy
Amniotic Fluid and Fetal Blood as Indicators of Fetal Circumstance
Constituents of Amniotic Fluid: Reflections of Normal and Abnormal Fetal Maturation
Amnioscopy and Fetal Blood Sampling
Maternal-Fetal Acid-Base Relationships
Use of Fetal Blood Sampling and Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
The Validity of Capillary Blood in the Assessment of the Acid-Base State of the Fetus
Predictability and Complications of Fetal Blood Sampling
Physical Methods in the Assessment of the Fetus
Biophysical Studies of the Human Fetus
Correlation of Intrapartum Changes in Fetal Heart Rate with Fetal Oxygen and Acid-Base State
The Clinical and Pathological Effects of Asphyxiation in the Fetal Rhesus Monkey
Gastrointestinal Activity and Water Absorptive Capacity of the Fetus
Prenatal Treatment
Indications and Results of Fetal Transfusions
Surgical Treatment of Erythroblastosis Fetalis
Intraperitoneal Blood Transfusion in the Fetal Lamb
Prevention of Rh Disease with Passive Rh Immunoglobin
Hepatic Microsomal Drug Metabolism in the Perinatal Period.