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...pills are Enovid, trade name of Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co. for norethynodrel, and Norlutin, trade name of Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co. for norethindrone (also called norethisterone).* These two chemicals, both extracted from the root of the barbasco (Mexican yam), are as alike as tweedledum and tweedledee. They are almost but not quite the same chemically as a natural female hormone that controls much of the menstrual cycle and helps to prevent ovulation-release of an egg from the ovary to the Fallopian tube, where a sperm can fertilize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Pills | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...ENOVID (Searle's name for norethynodrel) has shown impressive results as a contraceptive in Puerto Rican tests, reported Massachusetts' Physiologist Gregory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Regulating Pregnancy | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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