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CONTRACEPTION

teaching in the Universities,[1] one or two simple suggestions resulting from that experience may be useful.

In order that undergraduate students should take the subject seriously, it is necessary that it should be specifically named in the syllabus of all the Medical Schools. It should, I think, occur both in the groups of subjects under Preventive Medicine, and also Gynæcology. There should be a question on some aspect of contraception in one of the examinations every year or two, or the students will not set themselves to master the details.

Ideally the subject should be considered in a full course dealing with all the leading physiological and psychological reactions of normal healthy persons in marriage. Some day this may be possible, it is not at present.

Meanwhile were I asked at once to plan an adequate course of instruction for the syllabus of a first-class medical degree I should stipulate that the students came for the special lectures on contraception after they had already assisted at at least two or three actual births, and hence had the

  1. ↑ In addition to my undergraduate, advanced, and research students for palæontology, for three years I taught classes of about sixty medical students for their general biological laboratory work at one of our big Universities.

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