ot,
Gide, and other distinguished professors, teachers, etc., has
lately pronounced in favor of the official establishment of
instruction in sexual hygiene, to be given in the highest classes
at the lycees, or in the earliest class at higher educational
colleges; such instruction, it is argued, would not only furnish
needed enlightenment, but also educate the sense of moral
responsibility. There is in France, also, an active and
distinguished though unofficial Societe Francaise de Prophylaxie
Sanitaire et Morale, which delivers public lectures on sexual
hygiene. Fournier, Pinard, Burlureaux and other eminent
physicians have written pamphlets on this subject for popular
distribution (see, e.g., _Le Progres Medical_ of September,
1907). In England and the United States very little has yet been
done in this direction, but in the United States, at all events,
opinion in favor of action is rapidly growing (see, e.g., W.A.
Funk, "The Venereal Peril," _Medical Record_, April 13, 1907).
The American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis (based on
the parent society founded in Paris in 1900 by Fournier) was
established in New York in 1905. There are similar societies in
Chicago and Philadelphia. The main object is to study venereal
diseases and to work toward their social control. Doctors,
laymen, and women are members. Lectures and short talks are now
given under the auspices of these societies to small groups of
young women in social settlements, and in other ways, with
encouraging success; it is found to be an excellent method of
reaching the young women of the working classes. Both men and
women physicians take part in the lectures (Clement Cleveland,
Presidential Address on "Prophylaxis of Venereal Diseases,"
_Transactions American Gynecological Society_, Philadelphia, vol.
xxxii, 1907).

An important auxiliary method of carrying out the task of sexual
hygiene, and at the same time of spreading useful enlightenment,
is furnished by the method of giving to every syphilitic patient
in clinics where such cases are treated a card of instruction for
his guidance in hygienic matters, together with a warning of the
risks of marriage within four or five years after infection, and
in no case without medical advice. Such printed instruction, in
clear, simple, and incisive langua