Meanwhile, Julian had written to the Glidden Company, a supplier of soybean oil products, to request a five-gallon sample of the oil to use as his starting point for the synthesis of human steroidal sex hormones (in part because his wife was suffering from infertility).
وخلال كتابة جوليان لشركة غليدين لطلب خمسة جوالين لعينات الزيت ليستخدمه كنقطة بداية لصنع مركبات الهرمونات الجينية السيزويدية للإنسان (كجزء لمعاناة زوجته من العقم).