Why not? A book for every woman
Part 5
"As the present, however, is a point that, though only incidentally mentioned, yet involves some conflict of professional opinion, while the Association are of a single mind as to the matter of Criminal Abortion, I shall cheerfully append your letter to the published edition, and thus save your associates from any implied credit or discredit of indorsing my own opinion. This course will be unnecessary with regard to the Transactions, as the Association is known to be irresponsible for any views advanced by its members, save when adopted by special resolution, and its volume does not reach the parties in reality most interested, namely, the parturient women, whose anguish, so far as such may be unnecessary, it should be our highest duty to relieve.
"Thanking you for the generally favorable opinion you convey to me for yourself and those for whom you write, for I always value the approval of my friends next to my own self-respect,
"I am yours, sincerely, "+HORATIO R. STORER+.
"+DR.+ ---- ----."
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[Footnote 1: "The preamble and resolution were signed by Philo Tillson, President, and S. L. Andrews, Secretary, of the Northeastern District Medical Association of Michigan, as having been adopted by that Association, at its annual meeting, held on the 19th day of May, 1864, and which its delegate, Dr. Stockwell, was instructed to present to the Association."--_Trans. Am. Med. Association_, 1864, p. 60.]
[Footnote 2: Now that the decision of the Prize Committee has been made, the purpose of the above stipulation becomes evident. The Committee consisted of Drs. D. Humphreys Storer, Henry I. Bowditch, J. Mason Warren, and John H. Dix, of Boston; the Chairman of the Committee being the writer's father.]
[Footnote 3: The Committee consisted of Drs. H. R. Storer, of Boston; T. W. Blatchford, of Troy, N. Y.; H. L. Hodge, of Philadelphia; C. A. Pope, of St. Louis; Barton, of South Carolina; A. Lopez, of Mobile; and W. H. Brisbane, of Arena, Wis.]
[Footnote 4: Studies of Abortion; Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, February 5, 1863.]
[Footnote 5: Transactions of the American Medical Association, 1859, vol. xii. p. 75.]
[Footnote 6: Percival: Medical Ethics, p. 79.]
[Footnote 7: Man Transformed, Oxford, 1653.]
[Footnote 8: Regina _v._ Wycherly, 8 Carrington and Payne, 265.]
[Footnote 9: Criminal Abortion in America, p. 5.]
[Footnote 10: Owen: Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, vol. iii. p. 322.]
[Footnote 11: Naegele: Treatise on Obstetric Auscultation, p. 50.]
[Footnote 12: Studies of Abortion: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, February 5, 1863.]
[Footnote 13: Criminal Abortion in America, p. 42.]
[Footnote 14: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 42.]
[Footnote 15: Studies of Abortion, &c.]
[Footnote 16: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 106.]
[Footnote 17: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 34.]
[Footnote 18: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 32.]
[Footnote 19: H. R. Storer: The Causation, Course, and Treatment of Insanity in Women; a gynæcist's idea thereof. Transactions of the American Medical Association, vol. xvi., 1865.]
[Footnote 20: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 13.]
[Footnote 21: A Woman's Thoughts about Women. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," p. 14.]
[Footnote 22: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 55.]
[Footnote 23: Introductory Lecture at University of Pennsylvania, 1854, p. 19.]
[Footnote 24: Essay, &c., p. 101.]
[Footnote 25: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, editorial, December 13, 1855.]
[Footnote 26: Essay, &c., p. 106.]