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valuable if properly used, because it might be applied to one of the greatest problems for those advocating a racially valuable practice of contraception, namely, to secure freedom from conception on the part of degenerate, semi-feeble-minded or carelessly drunken women who are incapable of giving the necessary thought or care to the use of contraceptives themselves, and who ought on no account from a racial point of view to bear further children.

When I drew attention to this method in this country I did so from first hand discussion with doctors practised in its wide and successful use in America, and I did so unaware that English doctors knew so little about it and that most had not the necessary technique either as regards its insertion or its after-care. This has now been revealed to me from a number of sources and I must therefore reserve my advocacy of it in this country until the English medical profession has more fully considered the conditions for its successful use, as it only leads to disappointment to describe results attained in another country to women who are tied to their native city. I have discussed it fully with a doctor who has had a thousand successful cases, and who pointed out that the size and proportion of the pessary should be