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CONTRACEPTION

introduce quinine contained in oil, anything in the form of apparatus or complicated procedure at the time of coitus appears to me to be psychologically so unsatisfactory, that were the method otherwise satisfactory (which it is not) it stands condemned for general use.

(11e) Various Suppositories.

Quinine with or without chemical substances, and various other chemical substances without quinine, are made up in a variety of forms of pastilles, large tablets or suppositories of various sorts. Many of these are patented under special names, and much is claimed for several of them. For instance, "Patentex" has had great claims made for it, so also has "Speton," but so far as I can discover, chemical analyses do not support the reliance placed on these things. I await sufficient favourable evidence about any of them to justify me in recommending them in preference to the tried and established compounds.

(12) Alum in powdered form.

What has been said above (p. 104) in regard to quinine powder applies in the main also to powdered alum. The interest of alum is twofold. In the first place it is

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