4.05.2007

dr. atkins was kind of chunky, too

John Billings, an Australian physician who more than half a century ago developed a natural contraception method endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church, died Sunday in Melbourne. He was 89 and a lifelong Melbourne resident...

A neurologist by training, Dr. Billings began investigating natural contraception, that is, techniques not relying on devices or drugs that block conception, in 1953, at the request of the Catholic Marriage Guidance Bureau in Melbourne. Working with his wife, Dr. Evelyn Billings, a pediatrician, he created what is now known as the Billings ovulation method, or the Billings method. The method relies on a woman’s ability to sense changes in the amount and texture of her cervical mucus, which help predict ovulation and fertility...

Dr. Billings is survived by eight of their nine children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.


That said, contemplating "cervial mucus" is probably enough to put me out of the mood...

(obit in the NYT, via Ron Bailey)

1 comment:

RW said...

Yeah that should really be decreed to be like an oxymoron so it doesn't get used together like, say, intelligent-Democrat or something...