Word: ogino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heretofore, only form of birth control which the Roman Catholic Church permitted was continence. Lately Professors Kyusaku Ogino (Japan) and Herman Knaus (Austria) propounded a theory that a woman can be impregnated only during eight days of her cycle, that during the remaining 19 to 24 days she is not apt to conceive. This system of intermittent continence fits perfectly with the word of God, say Catholic authorities. Sixty thousand copies of a single exposition of the Ogino-Knaus rhythm theory and rules have been sold. The originators say that their system is more than 90% positive if their rules...
This system of natural contraception is based on research by Professor Kyusaku Ogino of Niigata, Japan and Professor Hermann Knaus of Graz, Austria. They observed that a woman is fertile only seven or eight days of her month and will rarely conceive outside that span. Professors Ogino and Knaus say, although not all investigators agree with them, that the fertile week always ends twelve days before menstruation begins. To love morally, canonically and practically a Catholic couple need practice continence only during the fertile week...
Chief U. S. propagandist of the Ogino-Knaus system is Dr. Leo John Latz, 31, of Loyola University. He organized the Latz Foundation to publish The Rhythm, "with Ecclesiastical Approbation," has in three years sold 60,000 copies...