Practical prevenception, or, The technique of birth control : for the medical profession only.

  • William J. Robinson
Date:
[1929]
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Credit: Practical prevenception, or, The technique of birth control : for the medical profession only. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to-date vademecum on the subject of Practical Prevenception. One question may be touched upon here and answered. Isn’t a book on prevenception for physicians something in the nature of carrying coal to Newcastle? Isn’t a physician supposed to possess all this knowledge? Yes! He is supposed to and he should. I have always maintained that it was just as important for a physician to know how to prevent unde¬ sirable and undesired pregnancy as it is to pre¬ vent the spread of typhoid or the contraction of any infectious disease. But alas! the percentage of physicians who know nothing, or practically nothing, about the prevention of conception is truly and tragically amazing. I have had physi¬ cians in my office from the West and the South and from small urban and rural communities in general who had not heard of, handled or seen a condom or a pessary! The fact that there were prevenceptive jellies, suppositories and tablets was a revelation to them. And how should they know? Such knowledge does not come by in¬ stinct or inspiration. You have to acquire it.
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