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Australian scientists got on the trail because of infertility in sheep: it turned out that the barren ewes were browsing on estrogenic plants. In India, Dr. Sudhir Nath Sanyal thought he had found just what the subcontinent needs in an extract from the common pea, Pisum sativum, but his results have not been confirmed. Some Europeans and the American Shoshone Indians swear by an extract from a species of gromwell or stoneseed (Lithospermum), but scientists have not been able to find the magic in it-if there...
...Calcutta's Dr. Sudhir Nath Sanyal reports a high degree of success in cutting down the birth rate by using metaxylohydroquinone an extract derived originally from the common Indian garden pea* (Pisum sativum), now synthesized in the laboratory. Taken by mouth, it cut the birth rate among 232 women by about two-thirds over a 15-month period, he reports. Some U.S. researchers scoffed at Dr. Sanyal's methods and results; others listened with interest because they consider him a careful, conscientious worker. The Indian government rated his findings worth a full-scale trial...
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