Storer, the Boston physician who led the American Medical Association’s nineteenth-century campaign against abortion, wrote this prize essay of 1864–65 for women themselves. He sets out the moral and medical arguments of his profession at the time, the dangers of the practice and the deaths it caused, in the language of Victorian medicine.
A historical document for students of medical ethics and the history of abortion law, reflecting the views and medicine of the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.