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Instruction in many of the subtleties of normal sex-life, and the physiological and psychological aspects of the controlled sex-congress in human beings should naturally form one of the more important themes of the education of medical students in all medical schools. Nevertheless in Britain (at any rate in the last generation or two) this subject has been so neglected that the majority of doctors who are now qualified and practising have received nothing in the form of training or instruction in contraception in the whole of their college courses. Such letters as the following testify not only to this fact, but to the deprivation which the practising medical feels when he comes in direct personal contact with the innumerable lives among his own patients whose health and happiness are jeopardized for want of such knowledge as he should have been trained to hand on.