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then know with any degree of authority how to deal with such inquiries. It seems good for the public (even if a reflection on us medicals) that your work should have come from a biologist, rather than from 'pathological' sources. We medicals are forced in the present state of affairs to be menders of the broken rather than preventers of the breakages."

No. 2011 (an M.D., F.R.C.S.). "It will be very kind of you if you will help me. My son, who is about to marry, wants to act on your advice [re contraceptives] . . . I am rather at sea in such matters."

I have received hundreds of such letters and questions from fully qualified medical practitioners; but these should be sufficient to illustrate the fact that there is not merely a popular demand for instruction in contraceptive means but also that the medical profession itself as a whole lacks, and feels the lack, of such instruction. It must be, therefore, with mixed feelings that one reads Lord Dawson's preface to his pamphlet^[1] wherein he says: "I have discriminated between the principle of birth control and the method of its application, the latter being preferably determined by the advice