Do you know about the history of birth control pill? How it came into existence? The current article takes you the ages behind where this pill came in use. The oral contraceptive is one of the greatest and most influential developments of the twentieth century. It is the most reliable method of contraception and one of the easiest. Today over 100 million women worldwide use a birth control pill to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Series of events in the history of birth control Pre-20th Century Origins of Contraceptives ! In ancient times, Chinese women drank mercury (now known to be toxic). Centuries later, Italians sipped a tea of willow leaves and mule’s hoof and Greeks consumed diluted copper ore. In the 1800s, Julius Schmidt used surplus sausage casings to start a condom empire. In the middle of the 20th century, an age-old quest for safe and effective oral contraception was realized.…
