Pelvic inflammation, sometimes very slight, following a birth, or the
same process set up by uterine pessaries used for displacements, may
induce adhesive inflammation in the tubes, and simple and permanent
sterility is the incurable result. It is a well known fact that
prostitutes are usually sterile, and this arises from the prevalence of
venereal disease, which produces gonorrhoeal inflammation of the
Fallopian tubes, resulting in complete and permanent occlusion.

This process could be best imitated, if cauterisation of the tubes were
a safe and reliable procedure. An electric cautery passed along the
tubes would result in a simple and speedy occlusion. But in the present
state of our gynecological knowledge this appears impracticable.

We have therefore at our hand, a simple, safe, and certain method of
stopping procreation by the sterilization of women by tubo-ligature.

This operation would entail no hardship on women. It is so easy, safe
and painless, that thousands would readily submit to it to-morrow, to be
relieved from the anxiety which a possible increase in their already too
numerous families excites. Hundreds of women and men to-day are living
unnatural lives, because of their refusal to bring children into the
world with the hereditary taint they know courses in their own veins.

Many men are living loose and irregular lives, amongst the easy women of
society, because the indiscretion of their youth has damned them for
ever with a syphilitic taint, which they could not fail to transmit to
their progeny.

Many virtuous men and women are living a life of abstinence from even
each other's society, because their physician has taught them something