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The earliest account of infertility caused by consumption of cottonseed oil which contained gossypol was by a traditional herb doctor, Liu Bao-shan1, who in 1957 reported that more than 30 families in a village in south-east China became sterile as a result of the consumption of cottonseed oil.
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Liu, GZ. (1985). Cottonseed oil for birth control. In: Runnebaum, B., Rabe, T., Kiesel, L. (eds) Future Aspects in Contraception. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4910-2_11
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