cundum

During the reign of Charles II a sheep-gut sheath was said to have been invented by the almost certainly fictitiously named Dr Condom (also known as Quondam or Cundum).

La nota de Burton aclara que, en arabe, Al-Musran designa la bolsa rellena con sangre que Ali utiliza para disfrazarse de mujer y fingir un aborto; precisa que se trata un trozo de intestino delgado de oveja, un "cundum", y agrega: "(so called from the inventor, Colonel Cundum of the Guards in the days of Charles Second) or 'French letter'; une capote anglaise, a 'check upon child'", utilizado tambien para prevenir enfermedades venereas.

But the first reference in print to the name was in the Earl of Rochester's 1665 poem entitled "A Panegyric upon Cundum".

It may be an apocryphal tale, but the original condom (Latin condus: receptacle) is reputed to have been invented by a Colonel Cundum (var.