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of the family doctor rather than by the perusal of books in general circulation." True but it would have been more just to have added that a very large number of medical practitioners have but recently derived their information from a book "in general circulation," viz., "Wise Parenthood."

It is possible that in some medical schools there has been individual instruction in contraception in the past, but I have not yet been able to find any record or any direct evidence of it except one verbal statement when lecturing on contraceptive methods recently (1922) to the Medical Society of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, my Chairman then said he had always given some instruction to his students incidentally as suitable opportunities arose in connection with their work. I should be glad to receive any other authenticated records of the same sort as I hope to be able at a later date to give a fuller history of the subject.

Since the publication of "Married Love" (1918) sporadically and unauthoritatively there have been isolated attempts at such instruction, and some lecturers have referred their classes to this book and to "Wise Parenthood." But the fact still remains