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CONTRACEPTION

CHAPTER IV.
Contraceptives in Use, Classified.

THE Contraceptives at present in use are numerous and their classification might be based on various principles. For convenience I will group them in the following way, numbering each type of contraceptive so that they may be easily followed up in the next chapter where I deal with each in some detail.

True Contraceptives include only methods of procedure which retain potential fertility, and imply control over the inseminating power of individual acts of coitus.

In contradistinction to these are methods of sterilization, temporary and permanent (see pp. 53 and 196) and abortion (see p. 54). True Contraceptives alone will be considered in detail in this book.

True Contraceptives.

True contraceptives may be grouped as follows:

  1. Actions or modes of procedure by

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