Medical Common Sense: Applied to the Causes, Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases and Unhappiness in Marriage was an 1858 work authored and published by Edward Bliss Foote.
Birth control is discussed in common language to make the book more easily accessible to the general public.
According to scholar David M. Rabban, Foote's work "dealt extensively and explicitly with social as well as physiological aspects of sex and laid the groundwork for the birth control movement of the twentieth century.
"[4] Foote recommends four different devices for birth control, which he says he invented: a fish bladder condom, a rubber cap for the tip of the penis, a rubber diaphragm called a womb veil, and an "electro-magnetic preventive machine" to alter the "electrical conditions" of sex.
[4] Foote was arrested in 1874 and in 1876 he was convicted, fined, and forced to remove content about birth control from Medical Common Sense, a move that caused him to vociferously protest against the Act.