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CONTRACEPTION

by some members of the medical profession, various careful observers have spoken against it, but perhaps the reason their sound attitude did not become universal may have been the briefness and incompleteness of their exposure of the dangers of the method. The great French scientist, Ch. Féré, said in 1899: "Le coït réservé joue un grand rôle dans la production de la neurasthénie et en particulier de la neurasthénie' sexuelle; si l'effet n'est pas constant, il ne peut pas être nié."[1]

Without discussing the method with much detail or subtlety, Kisch[2] in the "Real Enzyklopädie" quotes a variety of authors who think it harmful: "Von Gynäkologen hat Valenta den coitus interruptus als eine Hauptursache der chronischen Metritis bezeichnet. Elischer sah davon Perimetritis eintreten. Graefe führt als Folgen des anhaltenden Coitus interruptus chronische Hyperämie des Uterus und Oophoritis an, Goodell Beobachtete als solche Folge eine Verlängerung des cervix uteri, mensinga giebt also consecutive Erkrankungen Uterus infarct Oedem der Portio Anätzung de-

  1. ↑ Ch. Féré (1899): "L'Instinct Sexuel, Evolution et Dissolution." Pp. 346. Paris, 1899.
  2. ↑ H. Kisch (1900): In Eulenburg's "Real Enzyklopädie," vol. xxvi, pp. 372-382. Berlin and Vienna, 1900.

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