Horatio Robinson Storer 1830 - 1922

occupation:
Gynaecologist,
Numismatist,
Obstetrician: naturalist
Nationality:
American
born in:
Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States

He was an early and well-known anti-abortion advocate. He published widely in medical journals and wrote several popular pamphlets against abortion, including Why Not? A Book for Every Woman (1866) and Is it I? A Book for Every Man (1867). He was a proponent of chloroform anesthesia and the first to perform a caesarean-hysterectomy.