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has been accentuated, a considerable number of persons desiring children have used the Clinic with benefit. Unfortunately, however, far too many who come are childless due to long cured venereal disease or some other fundamental sterilizing influence which makes it impossible to render assistance. Yet it is surprising how many also come whose childlessness is due to lack of sex knowledge and who can therefore be rendered fertile by simple methods which they themselves are able to carry out. It may appear incredible but I have had one or two cases even of perfectly intelligent normal people who did not know how coital penetration was effected and who had been married some years. In many cases, however, some elementary lack of adjustment in the coital act is at fault and can be put right by very simple and direct instruction. In a book on contraception, however, as distinct from Constructive Birth Control, a discussion of this aspect of the Birth Control Clinic is out of place.

After careful consideration it was decided that, desirable though it would be to have the fullest and most elaborate details recorded about each patient who used the Clinic, yet it is humanly impossible to ascertain all the facts a scientist might wish for without