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om can be brought within the means of the very poorest, if care is taken to preserve it under water when not in use. Nystroem (_Sexual Probleme_, Nov., 1908, p. 736) has issued a leaflet for the benefit of his patients and others, recommending the condom, and explaining its use. [436] Thus, Kisch, in his _Sexual Life of Woman_, after discussing fully the various methods of prevention, decides in favor of the condom. Fuerbringer similarly (Senator and Kaminer, _Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage_, vol. i, pp. 232 et seq.) concludes that the condom is "relatively the most perfect anti-conceptual remedy." Forel (_Die Sexuelle Frage_, pp. 457 et seq.) also discusses the question at length; any aesthetic objection to the condom, Forel adds (p. 544), is due to the fact that we are not accustomed to it; "eye-glasses are not specially aesthetic, but the poetry of life does not suffer excessively from their use, which, in many cases, cannot be dispensed with." [437] _L'Avortement_, p. 43. [438] There are some disputed points in Roman law and practice concerning abortion; they are discussed in Balestrini's valuable book, _Aborto_, pp. 30 et seq. [439] Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, Bk. XXII, Ch. XIII. [440] The development of opinion and law concerning abortion has been traced by Eugene Bausset, _L'Avortement Criminel_, These de Paris, 1907. For a summary of the practices of different peoples regarding abortion, see W.G. Sumner, _Folkways_, Ch. VIII. [441] _Die Neue Generation_, May, 1908, p. 192. It may be added that in England the attachment of any penalty at all to abortion, practiced in the early months of pregnancy (before "quickening" has taken place), is merely a modern innovation. [442] Even Balestrini, who is opposed to the punishment of abortion, is no advocate of it. "Whenever abortion becomes a social custom," he remarks (op. cit., p. 191), "it is the external manifestation of a people's decadence, and far too deeply rooted to be cured by the mere attempt to suppress the external manifestation." [443] Cf. Ellen Key, _Century of the Child_, Ch. I. Hirth (_Wege zur Heimat_, p. 526) is likewise opposed to the encouragement of abortion, though he would not actually punish the pregnant woman who induces abortion. I would especially call attention to an able and cogent article by Anna Pappritz ("Die Vernichtung des Keimenden Lebens," _Sexual-Probleme_, July, 1909) who argues that the woman is not the
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