The G Ring: How the IUD Escaped the Nazis by Tuhus-Dubrow Rebecca

Author:Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca [Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

After he finished talking, Norman Haire rose to speak. He had first heard about the ring from colleagues when visiting Berlin in 1926, and in July 1929 began to try it on his own. He had by now inserted the device, he told the audience, in 270 patients—150 in his private practice and 120 at the clinic. In 35 cases, the device had fallen out. But in the remaining cases, only one pregnancy had resulted. Despite the cases of expulsion, he endorsed the ring. “On the whole I am very pleased with the method,” he said. He noted that it functioned independently of “sexual séance,” which could take place, as he put it, “equally well in the marital bed at home, or in the fields or on the sea-shore.”

Not everyone, however, had such good results. Jonathan Leunbach, the Danish doctor, had heard Gräfenberg describe the ring at the 1929 London conference, and had then begun to use it in his practice. After initially satisfactory results, problems soon arose. Of the 176 women he had fitted with the ring, two became pregnant; three suffered acute inflammations; and twenty-one others had suffered from such continuous bleeding and pain that Leunbach deemed it necessary to remove the ring. For some patients, the ring came out by itself. Even many of the women who decided to keep it complained of bleeding, pain, or iregular menstruation.

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