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 | | Some of the ointments specifically mentioned by Soranus include: old olive oil, honey, cedar resin, juice of balsam tree, while lead, salve with myrtle oil and white lead, moist alum, galbanum, lock of fine wool in the orifice of the uterus, and other such vaginal suppositories with the power to contract and condense. |
 | | Soranus suggests the use of one or more of these same plants in combination with a vaginal suppository. |
 | | Soranus specifically mentions ten plants (see appendix) in his recipes of which modern medical science has found eight to be effective, or at least to have an effect as a contraceptive and an abortifacient. |
| www.unc.edu /courses/rometech/public/content/special/Stephanie_Doerfler/Contraception.html (625 words) |
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