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Birth Control in I ts Medical, Social, Economic, and Moral Aspects Bj S. A dolphus Knopf, M.D. (P ans and New York) Professor of Medicine Department of Pht Msiotherapy, at the New York Post-G raduate Medical Schoov and Hospital; Visiting Physician to tlie Riverside Hospital-S anatorium of the Health Department of the City of Nexv York; Formerly Captain in the Medical Corps, U. S. A rmy. Preface to the Second Edition. The first edition of my lecture on Birth Control in I ts Medical, Social, Economic, and Moral Aspects having been complete! exhausted, I have been requested to permit the printing of a second edition. This lecture was delivered for the first time in October, 1916, before the American Public Health Association and has since been read a number of times before medical, legal, church, and civic organizations. The question may now arise whether it is up to date after the fearful wor Mwar in which our own country finally had to participate so that humanity might be safe from the tyranny and oppression of autocratic rulers and governments. The A var, with its sequel of a terrible influenza plague, has probably cost from twelve to fifteen million lives, and the casual observer might say verily no thought should now be given to birth control, for we must replace the lost population and particularly the lost man power. I have discussed the various aspects of birth control in my paper, and the remarks made by Assistant Surgeon General Trask df the U. S. Public Health Service, reproduced in this pamphlet on page 27, ans Aver all arguments for uncontrolled increase of population during A var times and thereafter. Our mobilization experience has shown us that one-third of the millions of men who were examined were physically unfit to sei-ve in the army, and I venture to say that if an examination of our female population would have been made, the proportion o
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