Horatio Robinson Storer’s journey west

We noted that Horatio Robinson Storer first contacted the American Medical Association in 1857 and that his request for creation of an American Medical Association Committee on Criminal Abortion was granted at the Annual Meeting of the Association in Nashville in May of that year. He was made Chairman of the new Committee with power to appoint the other Committee members. We mentioned that it would be two years before the important American Medical Association Report on Criminal Abortion was pre

We noted that Horatio Robinson Storer first contacted the American Medical Association in 1857 and that his request for creation of an American Medical Association Committee on Criminal Abortion was granted at the Annual Meeting of the Association in Nashville in May of that year. He was made Chairman of the new Committee with power to appoint the other Committee members. We mentioned that it would be two years before the important American Medical Association Report on Criminal Abortion was pre…