After recently reading the information that came with my Estradiol prescription, the idea may not have been as far fetched a solution as some of us here think! A nice little thrombus loosed in ol Adolph's blood stream (in his brain stem area) in 1940 would have certainly changed world history. The Patient Information Sheet I am looking at sounds like the stuff is a death sentence, and you are walking the green mile to the execution chamber every time you take one.
On the other hand, I worked for government too many years to discredit this off hand. Some of the brainstorming sessions I have sat in on could have ended up with them switching the water pipes in his bathroom so he would have scalded his backside off every time he took a dump.