Adler, Michael W., ed.

Diseases in the Homosexual Male

London, Springer-Verlag, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound for library use in a bluish-green buckram cloth. Thirty-one figures. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. This is the original, true First Edition, not the 2011 reprint. The aims of The Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science included "to highlight, to review and to record significant areas of research and development in the field of clinical science. All contributors are experts in their particular field and monographs may be the work of a single author or several, guided by individual editors." Diseases in the Homosexual Male is the third monograph in the Series." Edited by Michael Adler, and with contributions by John Weeks, A. McMillan, A. Mindel, E. Allason-Jones, I.V.D. Weller, J.D. Oriel, J.S. Bingham, L. GLover and D. Miller, and T. Whitehead, among others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii [1], 2-204 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Keywords: Michael W. Adler|Homosexuality|homosexual males|STDs|HIV|AIDS

Blancard, M.

Unfluence Du Soufre Sur Lapparition Des Taches Arsenicales

Paris, Imprimerie de Fain et Thunot, 1841. Offprint. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. SIGNED by the author at the front wrap, inscribed "a mon ami a Cologne G. Lleyne L'hermite. Blancard." Simple tan wraps, creasing to and light soiling of, chipping to covers, else clean and neat appearance of interior. A nice-looking offprint secured by the author from the publishers of the influential French language journal, Journal de Pharmecie, from 1841. Slight waffling to text.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Collectible: Good

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Keywords: M. Blancard pharmacy pharmacological arsenicals |chemistry|French language

Bliss, Michael

The Discovery of Insulin

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The discovery of insulin is told in an accessible and scholarly fashion. Michael Bliss's social history won the City of Toronto Book Award and the American William H. Welch Medal and many other awards. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound simply in brown cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Long range of black-and-white photographs interior. From the publisher's blurb, ""In a brilliant, definitive history of one of the most significant and controversial medical events of modern times, award-winning historian Michael Bliss brings to light a bizarre clash of scientific personalities. When F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering and isolating insulin, Banting immediately announced that he was dividing his share of the prize with his young associate, C. H. Best. Macleod divided his share with a fourth member of the team, J. B. Collip. For the next sixty years medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credit for the discovery of insulin. In resolving this controversy, Bliss also offers a wealth of new detail on such subjects as the treatment of diabetes before insulin and the life-and-death struggle to manufacture insulin." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-304 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Keywords: Michael Bliss the discovery of insulin medical history F.G. Banting J.J.R. Macleod Nobel Prize C.H. Best J.B. Collip.

Boeckl, Christine M.

Images of Leprosy: Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art

Kirksville, Missouri, Truman State University Press, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Early Modern Studies series, published by Truman State University Press. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiii, 1-234 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 359939

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Keywords: Christine M. Boeckl leprosy medical history medical science Hansen's disease European art history

Brodie, Jessie Laird

Dr. Jessie" the Odyssey of a Woman Physician

Portland, Oregon, Carolina Pacific Publishing, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Handsomely bound in a turquoise cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but heavily sunned. A fine and accessible autobiography of a woman physician in the Portland, Oregon public schools and who made a number of important contributions to pediatric and especially adolescent medicine and health especially in the realms of sexual and reproductive health services. xiii, 395 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 359878

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Keywords: Dr. Jessie woman physician Western Americana autobiography Planned Parenthood

Stanley B. Burns

Burns Archive: Respiratory Disease: A Photographic History, 1845-1945, Complete in Four Volumes, Slip-Cased

New York, The Burns Archive Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine addition to The Burns Archive Medical Specialties Collection Series, each one being a four-volume book set of photographic histories of and commentaries on "medical specialties, covering the topics of Oncology, Nephrology, Respiratory Disease, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, and Dermatology," according to the Burns Archive web-site. Uniformly high production standards are deployed here. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to any of the volumes, complete in four, beyond a single faint scratch to the rear panel of one volume, and housed in an also Fine condition pictorial cardboard slipcase. 1/425 of this First Printing of the Limited slip-cased edition of 425 copies, signed by Burns under printed author's name at title page and then inscribed also by him an inch to the left. Four volumes sharing the same hardcover format, photographically illustrated cloth-covered boards; no dust jackets as issued, titles stamped in silver on front and spine. Text by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. Designed by Elizabeth A. Burns and The Burns Archive. Includes a list of plates, a bibliography and photographic terms. Unpaginated, but with roughly 64 pp. to each volume and with two dozen or more four-color plates. Tall, skinny quarto format, measuring 11 1/2" x 9" tall and wide, respectively. Volume 1: 1845-1870, The Pioneer Era. Volume 2: 1871-1895, The Antiseptic Era. Volume 3: 1896-1920, The X-Ray Era. Volume 4: 1921-1945, The Serology Era. A brilliant, accessible photographic history of respiratory disease and its disease, complete in four volumes, with plentiful reproductions of photographs from The Burns Archive, as well as introductory essays and detailed descriptions of each of the plates by Dr. Stanley B. Burns, who assembled The Burns Archive, with "more than one million historic photographs from the birth of photography through the modern age," according to the web-site devoted to same. The Burns Archive "is best known for providing photographic evidence of forgotten, unseen and disquieting aspects of history and culture. The Archive houses unparalleled collections of early medicine, memorialization, Judaica, and the African American experience. It is renowned for its iconic images depicting the darker side of life: Death, Disease, Disaster, Crime, Racism, Revolution and War. Over the past forty years, thousands of publishers, curators, authors, researchers, artists, and filmmakers have utilized this unique source of visual documentation. The Archive has produced dozens of books and curated and contributed to hundreds of national and international museum and gallery exhibitions. The Burns Archive actively acquires, donates, researches, lectures, exhibits, publishes, consults, and shares its unique photographs and expertise worldwide. All of the photographs are available for licensing." All in, a quite fine set, signed twice by the author/compiler.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Fine

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Book number: 356710

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Petit Charles

Du Traitement Medical Des Calculs Urinaires Et Partculierement de Leur Dissolution Par Les Eaux de Vichy Et Les Bi-Carbonates Alcalins

Paris, Crochard, Libraire-Editeur, 1834. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Original, true First Edition but with wraps removed. French language text, a learned medical disquisition by a doctor of medicine Inspecteur-Adjoint des eaux de Vichy. 58 pp. Clean, unmarked, still remarkably tightly bound.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Keywords: French language|Charles Petit|urinary incontinence|urinary tract|bicarbonate of soda|thesis

Cushing, Harvey

The Life of Sir William Osler, Complete in Two Volumes

Oxford, England, Clarendon Press, at the Oxford University, 1925. Third Impressions. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A particularly handsome-looking set of two volumes, complete, comprising Harvey Cushing's magisterial and still quite readable biography of a giant of late 19th- and early 20-century medical science. Gift inscription from Wilbur E. Post, of Rush College, author of A classified nomenclature of diseases in the Central Free Dispensary of Rush Medical College," to Dr. Samuel Cresswell at first free endpaper of Volume I. Bound in blue cloth over boards, with still sharp and distinct gilt lettering and publisher logo to spines. Augmented with 44 black-and-white illustrations. Format is of a tall, thick, Imperial octavo hardcover format, measuring 9 1/4" tall x 6 1/4" wide. Stated Third Impressions (at title pages of both volumes). Fine duotone portrait of "The Young Professor at McGill," with his facsimile signature above, at frontis of Volume I, and of him in 1905 with his then young son, same duotone photograph, both images tissue-protected. Twenty-three fine illustrations to Volume I, some hors-texte, others printed on high-gloss paper, and another 21 to Volume, just as fine. Lists of abbreviations used rendered in both volumes following Tables of Contents. Dealer stamps, neatly affixed inside front flaps of both volumes at bottoms near gutters, from the Chicago Medical Book Company. Light rubbing to, bruising to, scuffing of tips and extremities. Ruled edges, bumping to spine head and feet. Volume I: Frontispiece, xvi, 685, [1] pp.; Volume II: Frontispiece, xii, 728 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,

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Book number: 359932

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Bartholomaei Eustachii [Eustachius]

Tabulae Anatomicae

London, England, Druckerei Holzer, Weiler im Allgau, for the Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., 1975. Limited Edition Reprint. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A brilliant facsimile exemplar of the Anatomicae Tabulae by Eustachius built upon reproduction of the copper-plate engraved illustrations done originally by Giulio de'Musi, "a Roman artist under the direction of Eustachius and his assistant [and relative] Pier Matteo Pini of Urbino" (K.B. Roberts) after the anatomical investigations of Eustachius done over a century and a half prior. The text that would have accompanied the plates was either never written or was lost and remains a mystery; later editors and publishers had perforce to supply an anatomical commentary. Eustachius was "physician to the Duke of Urbino and then to his brother, Cardinal Giuilio d'ella Rovere, in whose service he remained" until his death in 1574, having taught medicine and anatomy in the medical school at Rome (the Sapienza), probably his own Alma Mater (K.B. Roberts). The work was published first in 1714 under his Latin name Bartholomaei Eustachi[i], but had been completed 140 years prior. This exemplar was published in 1975 by Editions Medicina Rara Ltd. (T. Laqueur), London, printed for them by Druckerei Holzer, Weiler im Allgau, from a binding in full burgundy calfskin leather done for them in Stuttgart, West Germany, at the bindery of Richard Mayer. This copy is from the library of eminent Sydney, New South Wales neurosurgeon Dr John Sheehy, an uncommonly accomplished book collector and medico-legal authority, according to the previous owner, the noted paleographer and squidinkulist Andrea Boltresz. Currently only one additional copy available on-line of this Special Limited Reprint Edition of 2500 copies that was split further into an edition of only 300 done in full leather, this being Copy #CCLXVI (#166). Tall folio format, measuring 14" tall and 10" wide. Spine augmented with five raised bands, gilt titling in compartments, quite sharply done, fine publisher's device also in gilt at front cover, perhaps an artistic take on a system of body parts? The black-and-white plates are reproduced from a copy of the original 1714 "Lancisi edition" that belonged once to the so-called Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (says the colophon), "Lancisi" being D. J. Mariam Lancisium, physician to Pope Clement, thanked profusely and multiply at Preface and elsewhere. This copy is in Fine condition, marred only by one slightly noticeable and three extremely faint hints of foxing at fore-edge. Housed in the publisher's original paper-covered cardboard slipcase that has performed well. Text wholly in Latin, a deep, sharp, satisfying bite of the font to the brilliant special-made paper of Papierfabrik Scheufelen, Oberlenningen, West Germany. Illustrations are each numbered in Roman numerals and in full-page format, and with full-page legend opposite, detailing each of the numbered parts of anatomy depicted herein, from heart valves to limbic arteries, musculature to facial expressions, blood to organs, tissue to muscles. The author, Bartolomeo Eustachii (c. 1500-1510 - 1574) was an Italian anatomist and is said to be one of the Holy Trinity of the science of human anatomy and physiology (Eustachius, Vesalius and the "other" Columbus) and whose founders disagreed mightily on both empirical and ideal-philosophical conceptions of the body including Aristotle, Galen, Fallopius, and other giants. Ione writes, "As noted, the Egyptian, Biblical, and early Greek thinkers largely assigned cognition and sensation to the heart, rather than the brain" (Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 2010). Somewhat strangely, for Eustachius, though an empiricist, his illustrations based on dissections of cadavers that took place on an anatomy table. Whereas the figures of Vesalius "attempt to copy the natural appearance of anatomical structures," says K.B. Roberts, "Eustachius' figures are maps of human anatomy . . . " Eustachius is most famous for revealing the vena caval ("Eustachian valve") and the thoracic canal, for theorizing the difference between healthy and disease-altered organs, and after him was named the Eustachian tube that drains the ear. The illustrations here resulted from his collaboration with his relative and his pupil, Pier Matteo Pini; together they produced nearly four dozen detailed anatomical drawings of the organs and muscles involved, named the Tabulae Anatomicae Clariviri (T. Laqueur, K.B. Roberts et al.). xliv, [1], 1-115 pp. then Index Rerum, & Verborum, Emendanda, et Addenda, plus colophon. All in, a most handsome, tall volume paying due homage to 16th-century anatomy and physiology, art and collaboration.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Keywords: Eustacius anatomy physiology Pier Matteo Pini Giulio de'Musi Italy Roman Padua Vesalius illustration

Harden, Victoria

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever History of a Twentieth-Century Disease

Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations, tables, graphs, charts and photographs. Near pristine First Edition of this sumptuous exemplar of a volume in The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvi, 1-375 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Keywords: Victoria Harden Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever History epidemiology virological virus

Viktoras Kulvinskas

Survival Into the 21st Century: Planetary Healers Manual

, 21st Century, 1975. 18th Printing . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of the stated 18th Printing of the infamous and influential publication. Unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers. Introduction by Dick Gregory, front cover reproduces a print by Peter Max, back cover by Jean White. Prologue, New Age Nutrition, Yoga, Father, Mother, and Child, Heal and Be Healed, Food for Mortals, How to be Happy, and more. From the publisher's blurb, " Although written 27 years ago, it was the first holistic book to be published with medical journal references. Viktoras popularized Dr. Ann Wigmore and wheatgrass. He discovered Sunflower Greens and Buckwheat Lettuce and brought them to the mainstream. Within the book, a few of the most outstanding features are: insight into practical spirituality and dietary/spiritual relativism; development of positive mind set 99% of the time; how be free oneself of menstruation; a new paradigm of cancer - theory and cure, as proven to work successfully at the Hippocrates Health Institute and transition back to the land orientation; love, tantra and karma. Within the book, you will learn how to heal yourself from the full spectrum of illness and degenerative disease - from cancer and arthritis to heart disease and the common cold - by the use of living foods. Find out how to experience the esoteric realities and bliss of the universe, the energy of divine love, as proclaimed by the ancient masters. Various forms of yoga and meditation are thoroughly covered to attain vibrant health and perpetual youth. Food combining, super foods, vitamin and mineral content, calories, enzymes, water, wheatgrass and sprouting are all defined in very simple terms. Cooked food vs. raw foods, as well as various types of diet are discussed to achieve optimum nutrition, including sproutarian, fruitarian, vegetarian and macrobiotic lifestyle choices. The book also covers the many methods of fasting, with advice on how to prepare and experience a cleansing of the body. The father, mother and child chapter touches on pregnancy, childbirth and how to raise the youth to achieve their fullest potential. A large amount of alternative therapies are included. Physiognomy, iridology, zone and color therapy, massage, acupressure and healing herbs are all supported by amazing testimonials." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 311 [2] pp. and with extensive author note.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 358919

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Lombard, L.

De L'Influence Qu'Ont Exercee Sur la Clinique Medicale Les Investigations Modernes de la Physiologie Experimentale, de la Physique Et de la Chimie

Montpellier, France, Boehm, Imprimeur de L'academie, 1848. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Discours prononce le 17 avril 1849, pour l'Ouverture du Cours de Botanique Medicale. Original First Edition, disbound and with wraps missing, else clean and unmarked of interior, foxing is moderate to title page and final page, else quite mild, leaving the slightly waffled text block otherwise quite bright and clean. Thesis of the author as a contribution to clinical medicine at the medical school at Montpellier, France. French language text. Published in 1849 for a public defense the author gave in 1848. 84 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Good

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Book number: 346694

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Keywords: Dr. L. Lombard|French language|clinical medicine

Osler, William; John P. McGovern and Charles G. Roland, eds.

The Collected Essays of Sir William Osler, Complete in Three Volumes

Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1985. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition set of hardcover copies, complete in three volumes, with unbruised tips, tight bindings, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond a small, pinkie print-sized dent to front cover of Volume I; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in full black leather with four raised bands and gilt tooling and decorations to spines and front covers, including gilt facsimiles of Osler's signature stamped onto black cloth label to front covers, all edges gilt, and with marbled end papers that are of moire fabric with a silk linen ribbon book-mark. Collected here are facsimile reproductions of Osler's collected papers in several medical fields and with generous margins for ease of readability. The Classics of Medicine Library volumes are known for their love of Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints, and it shows here (or doesn't . . . ). Volume I: The Philosophical Essays (extensive frontis matter + 499 pp.; Volume II: the Educational Essays (extensive frontis matter + 455 pp.); Volume III: The Historical and Biographical Essays (extensive frontis matter + 643 pp.).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 350601

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Roberts, Marie Mulvey and Roy Porter, eds.

Literature and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century

London and New York, Routledge, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Marie Mulvey Roberts and Roy Porter, noted historians, have edited a fine collection of learned essays about the relationship between literature and medicine in the 18th century in England and Europe. Contributions by them and by G.S. Rousseau, Robert A. Erickson, Judith Hawley, Christopher Fox, Michael DePorte, Thomas Spaulding Willard, Pat Rogers, Gloria Sybil Gross, Peter Wagner and others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x [1], 1-292 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 356498

Catalogue: Medicine and History of Medicine

Keywords: Marie Mulvey Roberts Roy Porter literature medicine 18th century Eighteenth century G.S. Rousseau Robert A. Erickson Judith Hawley Christopher Fox Michael DePorte Thomas Spaulding Willard Pat Rogers Gloria Sybil Gross Peter Wagner

Peers, Rotha

The History of Contraceptives

Santiago de Chile, University of Chile, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking set of conference papers from the 8th Conference of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, held in Santiago, Chile, 9-15, 1967, prepared for the Medical Community by Beryl Suitters, Librarian for the I.P.P.F. Scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line. Broad survey of the history of contraceptives and with an Introduction by Rotha Peers, looking examples of contraception from Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, India, Islam, The Middle Ages, and with specific focus on the condom, spermicides, propagandists for contraception, the rhythm method, Britain's The Malthusian Leagues, Marie Stopes, Margaret Sanger, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, the cervical cap, spermicides, the "wishbone," IUDs/intrauterine devices and more. Housed in a stiff plastic sleeve.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 358010

Catalogue: Medicine and History of Medicine

Keywords: the history of contraceptives Rotha Peers contraception Greece Rome India Islam The Middle Ages The condom Spermicides Propagandists The Rhythm Method The Malthusian Leagues The British Movement Marie Stopes Margaret Sanger Elise Ottesen-Jensen Cervical c