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CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER VI.
Contraceptives in Use Described and Discussed (continued).
(C) Appliances used by Either Sex to Prevent the Spermatozoa coming in Contact with the Ovum.

By the Male.

(17) Condoms, popularly called "French letters," or "sheaths."

Sheaths were first made of fine linen to encase the penis, and were originally called "preventives," as they appear to have been invented to lessen the liability to contract venereal disease. Sheaths are among the very earliest recorded preventives. See Gabriel Falloppio,[1] 1564, "De præseruatione à carie Gallica."

Monsignor Brown[2] stated also: "There is evidence that at the time of the Fire of

  1. ↑ Gabriel Falloppio (1564): "De Morbo Galllico: Liber Absolutissimus." First ed. Pp. 65. Patavia, 1564.
  2. ↑ Report of the National Birth Rate Commission. Second ed. London, 1917. Pp. 184.

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