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nancies in the interests both of the mother and the child. Whenever the doctor informs the potential parents that this should be so, the further duty devolves upon him of informing them about the methods best suited to their individual circumstances of achieving this end.

The foregoing paragraph applies with even greater stringency to all cases of Cæsarean section. After Cæsarean section any pregnancy intervening in less than two years is a potential disaster, and should on no account be permitted to take place. That doctor is surely inhuman who, after performing Cæsarean section, fails to give reliable instruction, or to satisfy himself that the couple are sufficiently acquainted with contraceptive methods to ensure his patient's safety for two years.

Whether or not a young couple who as yet have had no children should use contraceptives is a question about which there is greater latitude for individual opinion. Among such couples circumstances of course vary very greatly. There are sometimes the personal requirements of travel where the pregnant wife would have to face conditions likely to be injurious to herself or to her child which would fully justify the imparting of such information to