Pregnancy: results from the meeting and fusion of two living cells, the cell furnished by the male (spermatozoon) and that by the female (ovum). To avoid or to prevent conception or pregnancy, then, consists of stopping the male cell from uniting with the female cell.

Prevention of Conception: to prevent the male sperm from meeting the female ova.

Prevention of Conception: the only logical and practical means for eliminating abortions when a child cannot be carried to full term.

Preventive: anything which arrests the threatened onset of disease.—Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Changed ‘importing’ to ‘imparting’ on p. [6].
  2. Added missing targets for the footnotes on pp. [33] and [34].
  3. Changed ‘There are given’ to ‘These are given’ on p. [57].
  4. Changed ‘since when’ to ‘since then’ on p. [59].
  5. Changed ‘dotted are’ to ‘dotted area’ on p. [71].
  6. Added missing caption ‘Fig. 21-23’ to the three illustrations on p. [90] per discussion on p. [71]. Since no countries were identified the three were left as one image.
  7. Added missing caption ‘Fig. 24’ to the first illustration on p. [90] per discussion on p. [71].
  8. Added missing caption ‘Fig. 25’ to the second illustration on p. [90] per discussion on p. [71].
  9. Added missing caption ‘Fig. 26’ to the third illustration on p. [90] per discussion on p. [71].
  10. Added missing caption ‘Fig. 27’ to the first illustration on p. [91] per discussion on p. [71].
  11. Added missing caption ‘Fig. 28’ to the second illustration on p. [91] per discussion on p. [71].
  12. Added missing caption ‘Fig. 29’ to the third illustration on p. [91] per discussion on p. [71].
  13. Changed ‘Neuman’ to ‘Newman’ on p. [94].
  14. Changed ‘they they’ to ‘that they’ on p. [103].
  15. Changed ‘it shall be lawful’ to ‘it shall be unlawful’ on p. [110].
  16. Changed ‘Table 8’ to ‘Table 18’ on p. [117].
  17. Changed all mentions of the Michigan city from ‘Ann Harbor’ to ‘Ann Arbor’.
  18. Changed ‘Hubner’ to ‘Huhner’ on p. [186].
  19. Changed ‘prostalic’ to ‘prostatic’, ‘diplethorize’ to ‘deplethorize’, and ‘chronic suggestion’ to ‘chronic congestion’ on p. [186].
  20. Changed ‘physic and somatic’ to ‘psychic and somatic’ on p. [187].
  21. Changed ‘always two paries’ to ‘always two parties’ on p. [187].
  22. Changed ‘STANDPOINT OR’ to ‘STANDPOINT OF’ on p. [205].
  23. Changed ‘65.5’ to ‘60.5’ on p. [210].
  24. Changed ‘records, were contracted’ to ‘records, were contrasted’ on p. [211].
  25. Changed ‘Alfred Scott Warthin’ to ‘Aldred Scott Warthin’ on p. [229].
  26. Changed ‘which is 1870–2’ to which in 1870–2’ on p. [232].
  27. Changed ‘provision is’ to ‘provision is not’ on p. [235].
  28. Changed ‘contions’ to ‘relations’ on p. [236].
  29. Changed ‘about mortality’ to ‘about morality’ on p. [245].
  30. Silently corrected typographical errors.
  31. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.