VAGINAL SUPPOSITORIES.

Suppositories are becoming more generally used in U. S. A. than any other method of prevention.

These may be found at any reliable pharmacy. The majority of them are made from cocoa butter or gelatine, which makes it necessary that they be deposited in the vagina several minutes before the act, in order for them to melt. Special ingredients negate the effect of the male seed.

Vaginal Suppository

Make into 12 suppositories.

Another suppository, which is the same as the well-known Aseptikon, is the following:

(Introduce into vagina three minutes before act.)

Still another found reliable is:

Practically all vaginal suppositories act as preventives but the most commonly used is the Aseptikon, manufactured by the Chinosol Company. They are to be secured at any reliable druggist's upon demand. They should be kept in a cool place. They are not poisonous and cause no injury to the membranes. They are distributed into a box costing 85 cents. The prescription quoted above can be made up more cheaply however.

It is interesting to note that in the rural districts in France the peasant women make up their preventive suppositories themselves, placing them carefully away in glass jars. This is one of the recipes which has been used:

Make this into a paste. Allow to spread out and solidify, then cut into pieces of 2 grammes each, wrap separately and put in a cool place (air-tight).

I have given in the foregoing pages the most commonly known means of prevention. Personally I recommend every woman to use a well fitted pessary and learn to adjust it.

Carbozine Tablets, obtainable from The Carbozine Laboratory, 3121 South Broadway, St. Louis, Mo., are highly recommended as an antiseptic and cleanser by farmer's wives and others residing in rural districts.

A highly recommended suppository, similar to those made and used successfully in Germany for over twenty years, is now obtainable from the Alotan Manufacturing Company, 2 Rector Street, New York City, at the rate of one dozen for sixty cents and two dozen for one dollar.

Condoms, pessaries, syringes, douche bags, and other rubber articles are obtainable from Riker-Hegeman Drug Company, 15 West 34th St., New York City.

Birth control, or family limitation, has been recommended by some of the leading physicians of the United States and Europe. The movement can no longer be set back by setting up the false cry of "obscenity." It has already been incorporated into the private moral code of millions of the most influential families in every civilized country. It will shortly win full acceptation and sanction by public morality as well.

In cases of women suffering from serious ailments, such as Bright's disease, heart disease, insanities, melancholia, idiocy, consumption, and syphilis, all a physician is allowed to do is to tide these women through their pregnancies if possible. Even though the life of the woman is positively endangered, he cannot relieve her without calling a colleague in consultation. Therefore, the mortality of mothers suffering from these diseases and their infants is very high, and premature births common.

To conserve the lives of these mothers and to prevent the birth of diseased or defective children are factors emphasizing the crying need of a sound and sane educational campaign for birth control.