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the Conquest of Mexico. History of the Conquest of Peru (I used the N. Y. Modern Library edition of these works). 267 Montezuma had perhaps 1000 wives, and the historian GOMARA adds: "quo huovo vez, yue tuvo ciento i cincuenta preñadas a un tiempo". Cf. PRESCOTT, 1. c., 321, Note 33.—The Inça Hųayna Capac had 700 wives in his seraglio (Ibid., 749.) 268 PRESCOTT, 1. c., 741. 269 Ibid., 722: Execution of an unfaithful Mexican queen and her paramours. 270 Males 24 years, females 18 to 20 years. Mates had to be selected from the own community (endogamy) under State supervision. 271 Cf. PRESCOTT, 1. c., 773. After conquests, the nobles and families were removed to Cuzco for indoctrination in language and Inca manners. The Quichua language was common, and the rebellious spirit of recent conquests was cured by transfer of a part of the population to a distant quarter of the kingdom. Colonists were forbidden to change their residence without a license. 272 The colonial empire of Queen Elizabeth became the kernel and eugenic basis of the present United States. Virginia was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter RALEIGH (1552-1618). 273 F. BACON (1561-1626): Essay No. 33, On Plantations; when the plantation grow stronger, then "it is time to plant with women as well as with men that the plantation may spread into generations, and not to be ever pieced from without".

.. ".. .piecing out with convicts.

.. (is) .. .a shameful and unblessed thing.

..". 274 Even in nunneries according to BURTON (Anatomy of Melancholy, I, 3, 4). HENRI II (Febr.. 1566) issued his edict about the concealment of pregnancy, and child death:

"... telle femme tenue et reputée d'avoir homicidé son enfant. Et pour reparation, punie de mort et dernier supplice, et de telle rigueur que la qualité par içųĥere du cas le meritera.

.." Cf. VITOUX G. (1921): Presse médiçaié, 29: Annexe, 855. 275 Believed so by Pierre BAYLE (1674-1706): Dictionary (Lond., 1738). 276 The grandes dames of the time persistently restored to crime to conceal their shame. On 22 June 1660 Guy PATIN (1601-1672) physician wrote to FALCONET about the notorious case of Mamselle de Guerchi who was seduced by the due de Vitry, and died from septic abortion. Cf. PACKARD F. R. (1925): Guy Patin, N. Y., 271. 277 Such hospitals grew everywhere in Europe. In 1765, Catherine, of Russia, founded an orphanage in Moscow, and changed the penalty for adultery to a fine (instead of being buried alive up to waist height). 278 FALLOPIO (1564): De morbo gallico, cap. Ixxxviii: De praeservatione a carie Galliça. "Ego inveni linteolum imbutum medicamento, quod potest commode asportari, cum faemoralia iam ita vasta feratis, ut totam apotecam vobiscum habere possitis: Quoties ergo quis coiverit, abluat (si potest) pudendum, vel panno detergat: postea habeat linteolum ad mensuram glandis preparatum.

.. ego feci experimentum in 100 et 1000 hominibus, et Deųm testőr immortalem nullum eorum infectum." (Reprinted in facs. by FINCH 1. c., footnote 208, 123.)—Similar device was also mentioned by Hercules de SAXONIA: Luis Venereae, etc. (1597). 279 Daniel TURNER, xviii. ct. physician (A Practical Dissertation on the Venereal Disease) (74.) mentioned "condum" in his work, and thereafter it is included in all works on venereal diseases. 280 The Carolinian Law of France, published by Charles V in 1553, prescribed death for anyone procuring an abortion, and death by drowning for the guilty mother. Cf. ABORTION, American Journal of Urology, 1919, 15: 78 etc. —Italian cities, Milano, Genova, also made abortion a capital crime in the xvi. ct. The French royal edict of Henri II was renewed by Louis XIV in 1708, LOUIS XV in 1731 and 1735. Cf. MILLAR, 1. c., 279. Also VITOUX, 1. c., In 1791, the Law of Henri II was changed by revolutionaries so that the mother was declared absolutely free of guilt. Cf. ABORTION, 1919, Am. J. Urol., 15: 115. 281 KANT (1724-1804): Phylosophy of Law. He put illicit sex relations on the level of cannibalism. 282 After the Council of Trent (1542).—The 1606 Roman Catechism (Antverp, Pars II, cap VIII, De ma rim, saçram., 13) reads: "Atque una etiam haec causa fuit, cur Deųs ab initio matrimonium instituerit; quare sit, ut illorum sit scelus gravissimum. qui, matrimonio juncti, medicamentis vel conceptum impediunt, vel partum abigunt:

—haec enim homicidarum impia conspiratio existimanda est." The Theologia Morális of ALPHONSE de Liguri (1773: Lib. VI, De mat63