Abstract
THIS book is a revised and enlarged edition of a work published under another, though similar, title in 1921, and since reprinted on several occasions. It deals with the causes and prevention of venereal diseases and discusses the relation of promiscuous sex intercourse to their spread. The author, though not medically qualified, has written many popular works on sex subjects, and gives, in this volume, several quotations of the views of medical men on the questions at issue. She describes the technique of disinfection to be applied when risks have been taken, a procedure in which she is a strong believer. Some of the medical references are not quite up to date, and the new treatment for gonorrhoea, which is one of the most important medical happenings in recent years, is not mentioned.
Prevention of Venereal Disease
By Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes. Third edition. Pp. xii + 62. (London: Putnam and Co., Ltd., 1939.) 2s. 6d. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 660 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145660b0
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