CONTRACEPTIVES IN GREEK LITERATURE: A REVIEW

The concept of contraception can be traced back since antiquity. Contraceptives are the agents or measures which are used to prevent conception. Unani physicians like Hippocrates, Aristotle, Dioscorides and Galen were well aware of this concept. They wrote a lot of books and mentioned different techniques, m ethods and drugs used for the prevention of conception. They gave full description of drugs with different mode of applicatio n including oral, local and in the form of pessary and douches.