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Show 5 CHAPTER II 1IUM.AN STERILIZATION--HISTORICAL. The surgioal prevention of reproduotion is a very 1 old practioe. Artificially sterile people have been cone Ld.er-e d es as objeots special regard since antiquity. beliefs practiees have been operations; sometimes the pun Lshment j sometimes, and an of veneration sex- or Scmetimes religious the unsexing as of both aid t o the background to been done has or , as precaution a- gainst, prostitution. The and modern primitive anoients, performed various and severe females which have made them either sterile, the women are or some .Afrioan was is not by suoh as this a known where probably in the the the n gcnads genitals or that In this latter , tf'infibulationfT of women is ob of the term. started, but it rather loo.se oastration upon temporarily of practical ffsterilitytf a is or deat ruc t Lon mutilating so tribes, tained, although It permanently rendered "Lnacoe e s Lb Le type of operation, of mutilating operations by sufficient related organs, have peoples Mesopotamian region. use There were I.General references fcr the history of steriliation: Enoyclopedia cf Religion and Ethios. Chas. Soribners Sons, N. Y. 1925. V. 5, pp. 579-585, ffErmuehfl; Vol. 3, , 666ff, nCiroumcision". Landman, J .li., Hurllan Sterilizaticn, Ch.3, ff-The Histcry of Human Sterilization in the United States.tfpp.51ff. pp. The Macmillan Co. N.Y. 1932. |
