The moral physiology : a treatise on popular questions, or means devised to check pregnancy / by a physician.

  • Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877.
Date:
1836
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Credit: The moral physiology : a treatise on popular questions, or means devised to check pregnancy / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    Second : The check chiefly recommended by me. It consists in the introduction into the vagina of a small damp spunge previous to coition, which is im- mediately afterwards withdrawn by means of a very narrow silk braid or ribband attached to it. And it is said, that if used of the size of a hen's egg. It is unnecessary to add, that the spunge should be clean—that it should be cleared of the particles of lime which is frequently found of the coarse kind (it ought to be the fine white kind for that purpose) after withdrawing this sponge another should be intro- duced fastened to a small stick four or five inches long—moistened with simple water is sufficient.— This last should be used as a swab to clear the va- gina of the semen. This spunge should be fastened on the stick in such a manner as to leave the bulk as large as a turkey's egg, or as large as a large hen's egg, (according to the size of the vagina, as the vagina of women differ sometimes consider- able) this remedy is a perfectly safe and sure preven- tive, if used of a proper size. This remedy has been used by several of my ac- quaintances, without failure—the anatomy'of the parts