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that date I have received a number of confirmatory opinions and cases including the valuable evidence of Sir Arbuthnot Lane (see also pp. 76 and 208).

No. 1052 (a Medical Officer of Health) writes me: "From my experience I am sure the presence of the semen in the vagina is beneficial to a woman."

No. 1002 (a practising doctor, M.B. and Ch.B.Edin.): "I was much struck by your opinion that the health of a married woman depends to some extent upon her experiencing the sexual orgasm and some absorption of the male ejaculate. I have long held this view. I have found that the physical signs of age are most noticeable in married women whose husbands practise withdrawal and who themselves never fully complete the sexual act. Especially is this noticeable just before or during the menopause."

No. 1050 (an M.D. married to a medical woman): "To us, personally, your books have been of much value, and indirectly, through me, to many of my patients. Amongst the uninformed 'coitus interruptus' is undoubtedly the only method made use of, and, in its train, it brings unhappiness sooner or later, I find."

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