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    1. after prolonged union. Known as "Male Continence," "Karezza," and by a variety of other names (see p. 79).
    2. Seasonal fertility.
    3. Coitus intermenstruus, or restriction of the coital act to certain specified dates in the month, commonly called the "safe period," or tempus ageneseos (see p. 84). Mutual and complete abstention from the coital act (see p. 90.

In addition to the above there are still more aberrant practices and the use of other female and male openings which are entirely to be deprecated as pernicious and abnormal and will not be discussed here, although practitioners should be on their guard against their use by their patients and warn them of the nervous and other harmful effects likely to accrue from their use.

B.—Chemical substances introduced with the intention of incapacitating the spermatozoa:—

(Note: So far as I am aware such substances are never introduced into the male organ, but are always introduced into the vagina in one form or another. I make this

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