Acid citric, 6 grains
Acid boracic, 1 dram
Cocoa butter, 90 grains
Make into 12 suppositories.
Another suppository, which is the same as the well-known Aseptikon, is
the following:
Salicylic acid, 2 grains
Boric acid, 10 grains
Quin, purol (alkal), 1 grain
Chinosol, 2 grains
Cocoa butter, 90 grains
M. f. supos, glob No. 1
(Introduce into vagina three minutes before act.)
Still another found reliable is:
Boric acid, 10 grains
Salicylic acid, 2 grains
Quinine bisulphate, 3 grains
Cocoa butter, 60 grains
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:
Gelatine, 1 part
Water, 2 parts
Glycerine, 5 parts
Bisulphate of Quinine--one-half a part
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.