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measures or from testing the results of novel researches. The poor women who come so trustfully for help must be given information which is at any rate as reliable as anything available at present. A group of better class and perhaps more intelligent women to whom an unexpected pregnancy is less of a disaster could perform very useful social service by placing themselves in communication with the Clinic in order to test new methods which might be devised.

The practice of contraception is in many ways the connecting link between health and disease. When used by the normal individual as a health measure its essential value and purpose is to keep that individual healthy and out of the hands of the doctor, yet it often shows the need for medical attention which has been overlooked.

The prime object of the medical profession being the health of the community, a full knowledge of contraception should be one of the doctor's most useful adjuncts. When used by diseased persons contraception becomes the great preventive measure to arrest the spread of disease and degeneracy throughout the nation.