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CONTRACEPTION

CHAPTER III.
Indications for Contraception.

AS will be seen in the chapters dealing with the history of the subject (p. 264), enlightened medical practitioners have for over a century spread information on contraceptive measures among their patients.

Yet in regular practice at present individual doctors still differ much in their willingness or otherwise to hand on to their patients what contraceptive knowledge they have. Cases such as the following are, unfortunately, still prevalent.

Case B. 200.—A very poor and delicate woman who has several children and nearly died with each childbirth. Doctor attending her told her she must have no more, and when asked how it was to be avoided replied "Find out." As her husband at times gives way to drink, she must have a means entirely within her own control.

Case 753.—Will tell her story in her own words. "I myself am an ex-nurse. I

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