Word: progestin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beans & Babies. To Dr. Willard Myron Allen, 30, serious, bespectacled chemist of the University of Rochester, Eli Lilly & Co. gave $1,000 for isolating the female hormone, progestin. Progestin is essential for the creation of perfect children. Since Dr. Allen showed the way, women who lack progestin can buy it from druggists. Manufacturers get their supplies from the ovaries of pigs. Last week Dr. Allen retailed the important news, fresh from Danzig, that Dr. Adolph Butenandt had discovered a way of making progestin from the wax of soy beans...