Item #26124 Modern Methods of Birth Control or Family Limitation. Contraception or Regulation of the number of Children. A Handbook for Husband & Wife. Dr. Marie Stopes, Hancock, Ltd Co., English, Foreign Chemists.
Modern Methods of Birth Control or Family Limitation. Contraception or Regulation of the number of Children. A Handbook for Husband & Wife.

Modern Methods of Birth Control or Family Limitation. Contraception or Regulation of the number of Children. A Handbook for Husband & Wife.

London: Pre-1927. An unrecorded pamphlet which supports Dr. Marie Stopes publications on birth control. The back wrapper references "All Dr. Marie Stopes publications kept in stock" and listing Married Love (6/-); Wise Parenthood (3/6); Contraception (12/6); Raidant (sic) Motherhood (6/6.) They also guarantee absolute secrecy, and immediately below that "Call and See Our Window Display". Methods include rubber sheathes, quinine pessaries, rubber cap pessaries, contraceptive sponge, douches, compound phosphorated Damiana Wagers for sexual frigidity and inability in both sexes.

Harvard holds an undated issue of 13pp, OCLC: 235978359 with the title "Modern Methods of Contraception or Regulating Number of offspring; Handbook for Husband & Wife by a well known London Chemist, Specialist in Family Limitation."

A 1927 edition of 18pp is cited at Cleveland Health Sciences (OCLC: 271744826) with the same title as this pamphlet but different pagination and no date.

A 1930 edition of 24pp "Rev. ed., with additional methods and preparations" is listed at Univ. of Waterloo, Canada as OCLC: 639890688, and most likely repeated as OCLC: 499180470 at the British Library.

A 1931 edition of 24pp "Modern methods of birth control, or, Family limitation :
contraception or regulation of the number of offspring : a handbook for husband and wife (issued to adults and the married only.) appears as OCLC: 29866510 at the Wellcome Library.

16pp, red printed wrappers, printed on both sides. Hancock & Co., Ltd., address is 128 Fleet Street, London, E.C.4, Established 1760, Specialists in Birth Control. Phone City 4710. F. V. Groves, Printer, 3 Popes Rd., Brixton, S.W. at foot of back wrapper. 14.5 cm tall.

Not recorded on OCLC; Copac; British Library catalogue. Item #26124

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