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Forever," can be considered a kind of historical landmark...Within a decade of the book's publication, Premarin — a mix of estrogens derived from the urine of pregnant horses — was the fifth-most-prescribed drug in the United States. (Decades later, it was revealed that Wilson received funding from the pharmaceutical company that sold
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Every woman has the right — indeed the duty — to counteract the chemical castration that befalls her during her middle years," the gynecologist Robert Wilson wrote in 1966. The U.S. Food and Drug
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had secretly paid all of the fees for Wilson to write his book and also helped finance his foundation. Other pharmaceutical companies additionally funded the Wilson
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