(पृष्ठ : १००, 'जाळ्यांतील चंद्र', म वा धोंड,१९७७ १९९४/१९९८)
रघुनाथ: रघुनाथ धोंडो कर्वे, शंकर - शंकर धोंडो कर्वे , दिनकर: दिनकर धोंडो कर्वे , भास्कर: भास्कर धोंडो कर्वे
अण्णा : धोंडो केशव कर्वे
तेलचिंधी सारखे घरघुती उपाय....
किती प्राचीन होत तेलचिंधी?
Stacy Schiff, 'Cleopatra: A Life':
"...Had she wanted to, Cleopatra could have availed herself of
volumes of advice on contraception and abortion, some of it surprisingly
effective. Nothing better revealed the conflicting tides of science and myth,
enlightenment and ignorance, between which she lived than the literature on
birth control. For each valid idea of Cleopatra’s age there was an equally
outlandish belief. Hippocrates’ three-hundred-year-old recipe for inducing
miscarriage—jump up and down, neatly touching your heels to your buttocks seven
times—made some of the first-century measures look perfectly reasonable. A
spider’s egg, attached to the body with deer hide before sunrise, could prevent
conception for twelve months. This was no stranger (or more effective) than
attaching a cat liver to one’s left foot, but then it was also asserted that a
sneeze during sex worked wonders. In Cleopatra’s day crocodile dung was famed
for its contraceptive powers, as was a concoction of mule’s kidney and eunuch’s
urine. Generally the literature on abortifacients was more extensive than that
on contraceptives; the time-tested ingredients for a morning-after pill were
salt, mouse excrement, honey, and resin. Long after Cleopatra, it was asserted
that the smell of a freshly extinguished lamp induced miscarriage. At the same
time, some of the popular herbal remedies of Cleopatra’s age proved effective.
White poplar, juniper berries, and giant fennel have qualified contraceptive
powers. Others—vinegar, alum, and olive oil—remained in use until recently.
Early diaphragms existed, of wool moistened with honey and oil. All offered
better results than the rhythm method, of dubious benefit to a people who
believed that a woman was at her most fertile around the time of menstruation...."
