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CHAPTER NINE

juice of the Boori GooaPan, 3ss repeated every 3rd Hour."

Webb, in the same work records cases of native Indian women who took various native prescriptions to prevent conception, which succeeded, but about which Webb remarks that, "if they do not act as charms, it is difficult to say how they do act." One of these prescriptions, for instance, is to swallow red broad cloth (Sooltani Bonat), and it is claimed to effect the desired object.

In more recent times Wilkins[1] confirms the fact of the continued prevalence of abortion, and estimates that there were "a thousand a month in Calcutta alone."

Other oriental countries also were (and are) notorious for the number of abortions performed and Dr. Collineau[2] records that in China public announcements, with the addresses of abortionists and those supplying pills to procure abortion, were quite freely published. He noted also that since the establishment of steamship communication with prostitute houses, female infanticide has been reduced because "Les filles sont un revenu; on les conserve."

  1. ↑ W. J. Wilkins (1887): "Modern Hinduism." Pp. xi. 494. London, 1887.
  2. ↑ Dr. Collineau (1899): "L'Infanticide et L'avortement en Chine," Rev. Mens. d'Ecole d'Anthrop., vol. ix., pp. 350-353. Paris, 1899.

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