Events
The sponge was promoted by both clinics. 50% success rateHormonal birth control was createdItalian anatomist Fallopius discovered the Fallopin tubesFirst precise and commonly accepted indications of the female fertility period was detected
The rhythm method before this was based on the belief that:
1 ovoluation was during menstruation or just straight before
2Retroflexed uterus detected in 50% of the women in Java - midwife assured that the uterus could be restored to normal with massageLaw prohibited abortion - a secular law of England, not as a result of Catholic law...
Before this abortion was not seen as illegal or awful in the first months of pregnancyCaholic church prohibited abortionfound widespread use of contraception even amongst those who had not received previous medical help.
Coiutus interrupts was the most common pre-medical consultation BC - some doctors argued that this was dangerous, causing nervousness, and worst impotense.
Coitus reservatus- karezza - man withhold hsi ejaculation all together were advocated through sex reformersThe Comstock law in 1873 banned all sorts of contraceptionCondoms:
before the 1850s the condoms was made at slaughterhouses in large quantities
after 1850s: the vulcanization of rubber witch made the condom resistant to melting and cracking + price dropped drastically1870s most important propagandist for planned conception = Ezra Heywood(man)
advertised syringes
the syringe was made a symbol of a womans self-determinationPessaries and IUDs was used in plentiful for correcting irregularities of the cervix and uterine
doctors both prescribing and insertingDiaphragma invented in the 1920 and made a huge class difference inPeriods
The industrial revolutionPre-industrial world:
The burden of pregnancies was not the lack of contraception knowledge, but a suppression of the technology!18th century condoms made of animal membrane
English: riding coat, assurance cap
French: letter, bladder policies, instrument of safety, condoms, cundums, prophylacticicsHomemade condoms formulas found in boos for home remedies through he mid 19th centuryAncient times the practice of the rhythm method:
-greeks and eat African women described the avoidance of intercourse a few days after menstruation
-prologning the suckling of infantsProhibition of all reproductive control technologies by state and federal governments
Abortion was probably the most common form of contraception thenInfanticide
Convicted women were often hanged
Desperation Amon poor women
Suspections of the huge amount of laudanum sold, were not just to quiet children crying, but also to cill infants painlesslyCivil War of America during this time abortion was outlawedThe belief amongst women and men probably : that before the baby "quikening" , abortion was in no way reprehensible (forkastelig) and abortion was not conceders any more iniquitous (skammelig) than other forms of contraceptionAbortion was made illegal during the civil war.
Labels as Portuguese was denoted an abortificent
French was a condom
Emmenagogues - female regulators - stimulate menstruation when it was late to irregularThe rhythm method was widely acceptable during the 19th. century.Douching was the most widely used method of contraception, but might have been limited to relatively prosperous women because of the lack of running water...
The syringes improved togheter with the rubber revolution19th-early 20th century recipes for homemade suppositories circulatedUtopian socialist challenged the prohibition of BC
Perfectionist were the religious groups of these
Both were pejoratively(nedsettende) called so
Had greater influence than their size - especially on womens rights advocates decades later
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