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CHAPTER SIX

no doubt that some modification or other of these appliances which penetrate the os have proved valuable in many cases and deserve attention. I feel that a doctor who takes the trouble thoroughly to acquaint himself with varieties of the method may be doing most useful service, particularly in connection with women physically incompetent again to be mothers and who yet either dread or are unable to afford the operation of sterilization.

In General.

In conclusion I may say that where the woman is healthy, with normal cervix and the usual relation between the length of the finger and the vaginal canal, without any hesitation I should always recommend the simple cervical cap of the "Pro Race" all-rubber type rather than any other contraceptive. Intelligent women by the hundred thousand have used such caps for forty years, and found them almost ideal. With this cap, according to circumstances, the woman can use additional soluble quinine pessaries without any great inconvenience to the spontaneity of the coital act.

In all ordinary circumstances between a normal pair I favour the use of the contra-

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