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She was born July 6, 1912 in Baltimore, Maryland to J. King Seegar and she had two siblings: King Seegar and Elizabeth Seegar.
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Georgeanna Jones
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She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Goucher College and later her Doctor of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1936. As a resident at Johns Hopkins, she discovered that the pregnancy hormone hCG was manufactured by the placenta, not the pituitary gland as originally thought. This discovery led to the development of many of the early over-the-counter pregnancy test kits currently available. is also credited with using progesterone to treat women with a history of miscarriages, thus allowing many of them to not only conceive, but to deliver healthy babies.
She became the director of Johns Hopkins" Laboratory of Reproductive Physiology and was the Gynecologist-in-Charge of the hospital"s gynecologic endocrinology clinic in 1939. died on March 26, 2005 in Portsmouth, Virginia.
