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Word: contracep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Harley's place." This was an eleven-room house in a respectable Newark neighborhood where one George E. Harley, a genteel little malpractitioner, conducted an anti-birth insurance business. For $2 a month, paid in advance, "Dr." Harley guaranteed that no cus tomer need have a baby. For contracep tive he dispensed a "Magic Oil." In case of pregnancy he stood ready to perform an abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti-Birth Insurance | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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