Word: barbasco
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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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...