Rhythmeter

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Title

Rhythmeter

Subject

Tilbrook, Gilmore Lee
Rhythmeter
Rhythm method (Birth control)

Description

Rock became the Director of the Free Hospital for Women’s Sterility Clinic in 1926. At the Free Hospital, Rock saw many infertile women who were eager to have children. Some of his patients, however, sought the means to control conception. For these women, Rock offered the only legal contraceptive approach, the rhythm method. In 1936 he founded a Rhythm Clinic, helping women to estimate their likelihood of fertility based on a record of the length of previous menstrual cycles.

Abstract

A Rhythmeter, used to help a woman determine her fertile period using information such as the date of her last menses and the length of her typical cycle

Creator

Tilbrook, Gilmore Lee

Date Created

1944

Rights

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Access Rights

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Is Part Of

Abraham Stone papers, 1916-1959. H MS c157. Box 2, folder 35.

References

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Format

image

Extent

1 rhythmeter

Language

English

Type

still image

Identifier

DigID0002408

Provenance

Donated to the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine in 1971 by Gloria Aitken, daughter of Abraham Stone

Files

http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/file_upload/0002408_dref.jpg

Citation

Tilbrook, Gilmore Lee, “Rhythmeter,” OnView, accessed March 28, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6538.