Word: norlutin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl babies were so masculinized that they would have been reared as boys because their mothers were treated early in pregnancy with a synthetic hormone to reduce the risk of spontaneous abortion.* Yet for months afterward, the Journal carried advertisements for this drug, marketed by Parke, Davis & Co. as Norlutin, which contained no word of warning as to the possible catastrophic effects...
...most widely available oral contraceptives today are and Norlutin, manufactured respectively by G.D. Searle and Davis. The compounds closely resemble progesterone, a female hormone. Progesterone is secreted each month by the bearing follicles after ovulation has occurred. It passes through blood stream so as to effect the pituitary gland which in turn the production of F.S.H.--the so-called "follicle-stimulating Without F.S.H. the immature egg follicles cease growing. If caption occurs, the secretion of progesterone continues through out pregnancy...
...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...
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