[Contraceptives of yesterday, today, and tomorrow]. / Contraccettivi di ieri, di oggi... e di domani.

PIP: This brief article reviews primitive methods of contraception, from the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans, to 18th century Europe. Castration was practiced in ancient times as a contraceptive method, and there is also proof of some primitive models of vaginal diaphragm. The first description of a condom goes back to 1565, while the problem of birth control was first discussed in England at the beginning of the 19th century. Freedom of information was first expounded in 1879 at a congress of the Malthusian League.^ieng