Some objections to contraception answered / by Marie Carmichael Stopes.

  • Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958.
Date:
1931
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    tives that The employment of such methods [ although he does not specify which] while preventing fertilization may also be the means of depriving the female of certain secretions which may exercise a far-reaching influence on her economy. As the Editor of the British Medical Journal refused to publish any letter from me on the subject, even when requested to do so by professor sir william bayliss, f.r.s., the great physiologist, I sent a short letter to Health* About prof. Thomson's article I have two things to say. The first is my ever-recurrent astonishment that persons who have some knowledge of scientific method should nevertheless speak of 4 methods of contraception,' and lump their views about them under this one head, as though all the various methods had the same kind of physiological result, and, moreover, should do this in spite of my clear separation of the different types of physiological reactions naturally resulting from the different physiological processes involved in the very great variety of methods in use. It is utterly unscientific, indeed it is absurd, to talk about any general result of ' methods of contraception.' Each * m. c. stopes (1922) : Letter on Marriage, and the Health of Women, Health , March, 1922. P. 226.