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THOUGH vitamins and minerals are fashionable ingredients of well-informed and polite conversation, by most people reproduction is not mentioned: it is disturbing, even repulsive. Yet men and women do mate and reproduce, and the State which is beginning to regard the child as a liability will sooner or later be forced to exhibit a very lively interest both in the number and the quality of the children that are born to be fed, housed, educated and employed or not employed.
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Pre-nuptial Medical Examination. Nature 137, 552–553 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137552a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137552a0