American Decades
The Control of Fertility
Monograph, Tables
By: Gregory Pincus
Date: 1965
Source: Pincus, Gregory. The Control of Fertility. New York: Academic Press, 1965, 226–227.
About the Author: Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967) was born in Woodbine, New Jersey, and received a Sc.D. from Harvard University in 1927. He taught at Harvard, Clark University, Tufts University Medical School, and Boston University. In 1944 he and a colleague founded the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. Pincus collaborated with Harvard gynecologist John Rock in developing the oral contraceptive Enovid.
| Method | Average pregnancies per 100 woman years |
| No contraception | 115 |
| Douche | ...
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