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ceptive most generally known, and its recommendation by the medical profession has been weighty, and yet I maintain it does do much harm. Yet, as Hardy^[1] says, "Professors Kraft-Ebing and Sarwey recommend its use in preference to all the other contraceptive methods. In 1905 at the Congress of Zürich organized by the Society to Combat Venereal Disease, the doctors were unanimous in favour of the sheath, indicating it as the only method to be recommended, both for the prevention of venereal disease and of conception." I dispute, however, the assertion of its entire harmlessness which follows. Dr. Robie, also, the American sexologist,^[2] says "the condom is generally conceded to be the best arrangement" . . . . "as it allows of the complete satisfaction of the woman."

What may be described as the German school of sexologists favour it, and a typical quotation from their works is the following from Ivan Bloch's well known book,^[3] "The ideal mechanical means (of preven-