On the word of London (1982/2015), "Birth control has been an important matter in the lives of humans since the beginning of time, the first contraception devices used in the ancient Egypt were sponges that were used as vaginal barriers to stop the sperm from reaching the egg, these barriers were concocted from a mix of crocodile dung, honey and sodium carbonate used to block the flow of sperm from fertilizing the egg among many others" (The History of Birth Control section, para.17). ... On the word of the (World Health Organization [WHO], 2014), during the early1800s, child mortality rates...

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