From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, U. S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif.

The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private ones of the author and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the view of the Naval Service at large.

Presented at the Workshop in Family Life Education, California State College at Hayward, Calif., Mar. 18, 1966, and presented in part at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Academy of General Practice, Chicago, Ill., Apr. 15, 1966; the AAGP and ACOG Seminar, Milwaukee, Wisc., Apr. 27, 1966; and the 14th Annual Meeting of the ACOG, Chicago, Ill., May 3, 1966.

The illustration at the top of the page is “The Medieval Doctor,” a 15th-century German woodcut. (The Bettmann Archive)