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vidual cases of patients, and the students are instructed accordingly." In connection with this one must note Professor McIlroy's lecture on contraception[1] and also that more recently there have been widely reported in the ordinary press her other pronouncements of opposition to the general spread of knowledge of contraceptives.

No science is more swayed by public opinion and guided by public demands than Medicine, and there is every hope that as the great public awakens to the need for instruction in normal healthy sex procedure so will it become possible for research into normal behaviour to establish a true Faculty of Preventive Medicine. This must be grounded on the very basis of all true ante-natal preventive work (important though that be) and goes really to the root of the matter by securing for the community, almost without exception, that conceptions shall be potentially healthy and favourable, or shall not occur.

Regarding the actual 'instruction in medical schools in this subject, as I have had a good deal of experience of academic

  1. ↑ A. L. McIlroy, M.D. (1921): "Some Factors in the Control of the Birth-Rate." Trans. Medico-Legal Soc., vol. xv, pp. 137-153. London, 1921.

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