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  2. Carl Djerassi - Wikipedia

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    The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse [57] From the Lab into The World: A Pill for People, Pets, and Bugs [58] Paul Klee: Masterpieces of the Djerassi Collection [59] Dalla pillola alla penna [60] This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill [61] In Retrospect : From the Pill to the Pen [62]

  3. Gregory G. Pincus - Wikipedia

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    Pincus' birth control pill changed family life in a significant way, because it allowed women to choose—for the first time—when they would have children and plan accordingly around this decision in a deliberate manner. The birth control pill helped pave the way for the women's liberation and concomitant Sexual Revolution movements. [6]

  4. Luis E. Miramontes - Wikipedia

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    While Djerassi is sometimes regarded as 'Father of the Pill'"., [1] it was Miramontes, working under Djerassi's supervision, that achieved the first synthesis. In the words of Djerassi, "On 15 October 1951, Luis Miramontes, a young Mexican chemist doing his undergraduate bachelor's thesis work at Syntex completed the synthesis of the 19-nor ...

  5. Katharine McCormick - Wikipedia

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    In sum, McCormick had provided $2 million (around $20 million today) of her own money for the development of the oral contraceptive pill. [7] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of the Pill in 1957 for menstrual disorders and added contraception to its indications in 1960. Even after the pill was approved, she continued to ...

  6. Joshua Ward - Wikipedia

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    The chemist Joseph Clutton published an analysis of Ward's pills in A True and Candid Relation of the Good and Bad Effects of Joshua Ward's Pill and Drop in 1736. He found that two of the pills contained antimony and cobalt and the other arsenic. [11] In 1736, Ward set up the Great Vitriol Works in Twickenham to produce sulphuric acid.

  7. Why are there cotton balls in pill bottles? - AOL

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    According to the Wall Street Journal, Bayer stopped the practice in 1999, but because people are used to seeing the little cotton balls in their pills, they expect it -- some companies have kept ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Dan Kerwin, 23, attended a Recovery Works program in the spring, and his sister found him dead of an overdose during the July 4th weekend. Tabatha Roland, 24, suffered a fatal overdose in April — one week after graduating from Recovery Works. And in November, Ryan Poland, 24, died of an overdose. He too was a Recovery Works graduate.

  9. Wikipedia : On this day/Today

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    1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century. 1900 – Giacomo Puccini 's opera Tosca (poster pictured) , based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou , premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.