https://waitingforthesystole.com 2026-04-28 daily 1.0 https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/image01.jpg Dr. Aloysio Resende Neves, Brazilian physician who documented the hormonal contraceptive principle in 1941 https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/image04.jpg Waiting for the Systole — The Hidden Principle and the Stolen Pill, book cover by Lucas Neves M.D., 2026 https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/image05.jpg À Espera da Sístole: Pernambuco 753, capa do livro de Lucas Neves M.D., 2026 https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/image02.jpg the article that substituted names on page 258 to fool the censor. https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/image03.jpg https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery02/455088d2.jpg Aloysio Resende Neves, student years, c. 1933 https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery02/a87d0815.jpg Helena, first communion https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery02/0f726e70.jpg Wedding day, 1942 https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery02/236a982e.jpg Aloysio and Helena, the same morning https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery02/1057a6db.jpg Aloysio and Helena, c. 1950 https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery02/ac0c1f8c.jpg Aloysio and his daughter Maria Amélia, Belo Horizonte https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery02/a5be51b1.jpg Untitled https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery02/3ac16625.jpg Acílio Resende Neves — Helena's son, lost too soon https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery03/ab713352.jpg 753 Rua Pernambuco, Belo Horizonte. The house where the discovery was kept for sixty years. https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery03/f4352676.jpg "O Hospital", Volume XX, August 1941. The article that bypassed the censors. https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery03/27fe8d19.jpg Letter from Juscelino Kubitschek to Aloysio, January 4, 1956. https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery03/64690c63.jpg U.S. Patent Office, 1993: "Since you published your findings in 1941, no patent may issue based on it." https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/gallery03/6e4d56ac.jpg Aloysio at the London Wax Museum. "Neither of them ever received a Patent." — caption written by Aloysio himself. https://waitingforthesystole.com/assets/images/image06.jpg