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No. 1002 (An M.B. and Ch.B.). "It is the fact that during the whole of my University training for my profession the subject of the control of conception was never mentioned. It seems to have been left for you to make this—in many cases necessary knowledge—available in a form suitable for the lay mind as well as the professional."

No. 1004 (an M.D.) "Although a medical man of some experience and supposed to be well-informed on these matters, I realize that I knew very little."

No. 1003. "Will you be so kind as to tell Dr. —— a method of birth control. He believes in judicious control in many cases but he only knows of the sheaths for men."

No. 1006 (an M.B., Ch.B.). "Although I am a medical man, at the time of my marriage five years ago (1915) I knew little or nothing of the abstruse problems of sex. During my medical course, at one of the most famous British schools, I received no instruction whatsoever on this subject—apart of course, from the ordinary training in midwifery and gynecology, I should be obliged if you could give me your opinion as to the most hygienic and safe means of controlling pregnancy, as I am