The difficulties of intrauterine contraceptive research
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The difficulties of intrauterine contraceptive research.
the obscure experiments of Hippocratic times, to the multiplicity of intracervical devices invented by ingenious Victorians, to the gallant but ultimately disappointing experiments of Richter and Grafenberg in the early 20th century.1,2 More successful experience came in the 1950s and 1960s with reports from Ishihama and Oppenheimer.3,4 This resulted in a burst of activity from the Population C...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1471-1893,0000-0000
DOI: 10.1783/147118902101195983