“…In man, the cow and the rabbit, the only species so far fully investigated, injected progesterone is removed from the blood at a very rapid rate (Raeside & Turner, 1955;Rappoport, Goldstein & Haskins, 1957;Soiva, Haskins & McCafferty, 1959;Zander, 1959; Davis, Plotz, Lupu & Ejarque, 1960;cf. also Short, 1961).…”