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Horatio Robinson Storer
1830–1922
A Boston physician who helped shape early gynecology, he is now remembered both for medical innovation and for leading a 19th-century campaign against abortion in the United States.
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On criminal abortion in America
by Horatio Robinson Storer
Why not? A book for every woman
by Horatio Robinson Storer
Is it I? A book for every man.
by Horatio Robinson Storer
About the author
Born in Boston in 1830, he studied at Boston Latin School, Harvard College, and Harvard Medical School before continuing his training in Europe. He went on to build a career as a surgeon and specialist in women's health, and historians often credit him with helping establish gynecology as a distinct medical field in the United States.
He founded the Gynaecological Society of Boston and published extensively on medical topics. He is also widely noted for leading the so-called Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion in the late 1850s and 1860s, a movement that influenced stricter abortion laws in many states.
Later in life, he was known not only as a physician but also as a numismatist. He died in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1922.