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[Stefan li Rous]

Brighid ni Chiarain commented:
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Mairi Ceilidh wrote:
 > Daniel, you know I will support you in all GOOD things you do for
 > Art/Sci.
 > This in NOT one of them.  You did an excellent job of documenting the
 > "hole".  Let it go at that.
 >
 > Geez, and he's someone else's "child".

Based on some quick Web research, condoms in period were originally
sheaths of linen, sometimes soaked in herbal solutions.  They were
primarily intended to prevent STDs.  So, if Daniel would like to do some
practical research, he should probably be heading to a fabric shop
instead of a butcher shop...
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Maybe. From a message I had saved, yet hadn't gotten added to the  
appropriate Florilegium file yet:

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From: Chas <webmaster at NOSPAMhistoricgames.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Period contraception
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:26:30 GMT

Cian ua'Lochain wrote:
 > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Trish Liaoz wrote:
 > Opinion: Latex, Spermicides and Hormones are far more reliable,  
and this
 > in one place that period is NOT better.  Bring the condoms.

It was an Italian anatomist, Gabriello Fallopio who claimed to be the
inventor of a linen sheath as a protection against venereal disease.
(1523-62. It was also his name that was adopted for the fallopian
tubes.) His invention first appeared in his posthumously published work
De Morbo Gallico (The "French disease," i.e. syphilis). A short time
later, a Hercules Saxonia described a larger linen sheath, soaked in a
chemical or herbal preparation, which covered the entire penis like a
modern condom.

The invention of such sheep-gut condoms has often been attributed to a
certain Dr. Condom, (sometimes spelled Cundum, or Quondam), during the
reign of England's King Charles II. However, there seems to be nothing
to confirm this story outside of hearsay. Archaeological evidence
suggests that these gut condoms were already available as early as the
period of the English Civil War. Fragments of shaped animal gut were
discovered during an excavation of the garderobe (privy) of the keep at
Dudley Castle, which had been filled in 1647. These prototype condoms,
known as baudruche, French letters, or capotes anglaises (English riding
coats), were primarily employed as protection against venereal disease,
although there is some literary evidence that their dual purpose as
contraceptives was also recognized.

-Excerpted from a pamphet I wrote: "A Short History of a Delicate
Subject: Condoms through the Centuries" available at the site below ;-)

Chas
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Stefan
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