Word: aspirins
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...tour the division's own small pharmaceuticals factory, which produces medicine for stomach ailments, aspirin and a digestive candy made from crab apples and honey. In some rooms, women close glass vials with a blow torch as soldiers fill the vials with yellow medicine. The operation is simple and clean. Most of the operations are done by hand...
...Aspirin may be safer than you think. Two Harvard researchers have found it to be an effective contraceptive in female rats. Indomethacin, a common anti-inflammatory drug used to treat arthritis, was found to be twenty to thirty times as effective as aspirin as a rat contraceptive...
...contraceptive effect could be produced by injections of 10 milligrams of aspirin or one-half milligram of indomethacin per rat for two days. These dosages are approximately equivalent to one and one-half times the maximum prescribed human dosage...
Behrman and Orczyk linked the striking effect of aspirin and indomethacin to luteinizing hormone and prostaglandins. LH stimulates the final ripening and rupture of the ovary follicles to release the eggs and is essential for ovulation. Prostaglandins are natural hormones which help to regulate various bodily functions including ovulation...
...determine the effect of aspirin and indomethacin on human ovulation, Behrman and Orczyk are beginning preliminary studies with women who take large amounts of aspirin and indomethacin for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis...