Storer, Horatio Robinson, 1830-1922

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Dates:
Birth 1830
Death 1922
Birth 1830-02-27
Death 1922-09-18
Americans
English, English,

Biographical notes:

Horatio R. Storer (1830-1922) was a physician and publisher of The American journal of numismatics. Lt. Col. Champe Carter McCulloch, Jr (1869- ) was a librarian at the Surgeon General's Library 1913-19.

From the description of Horatio Robinson Storer medical numismatics correspondence with Col. C.C. McCulloch, 1916. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14310511

From the guide to the Horatio Robinson Storer numismatics correspondence with Col. C. C. McCulloch, 1916, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)

Storer a leading antiabortion advocate in Boston and was a staunch supporter of using chlorofrom rather than ether during obstetrical procedures. He helped establish gynecology as a legitimate medical profession. Simpson was a professor of midwifery in Ediburgh and an early experimenter with chloroform.

From the description of Horatio Robinson Storer papers, 1859-1911. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14312757

Storer, a leading antiabortion advocate in Boston, was a staunch supporter of using chloroform rather than ether during obstetrical procedures. He helped establish gynecology as a legitimate medical profession. Simpson was a professor of midwifery in Edinburgh and an early experimenter with chloroform

From the guide to the Horatio Robinson Storer Papers, 1859-1916, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)

Horatio Robinson Storer, 1830-1922, AB, 1850, Harvard College; MD, 1853, Harvard Medical School; LLB, 1868, Harvard Law School, gynecologist and numismatist, was chair of Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence at Berkshire Medical College from 1865 to 1869. Storer lectured extensively on gynecology and was the first physician in the United States to teach gynecology as a separate field from obstetrics and midwifery, focusing on women's diseases unconnected to gestation, childbed or the puerperal state.

From the description of Papers, 1848-1921. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81866798

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Subjects:

  • Anesthesia
  • Students
  • Exchanges Of Publications
  • Gynecologists
  • Gynecology
  • Meteorology
  • Natural history
  • Numismatics
  • Obstetrics
  • Physicians
  • Scientific expeditions
  • Scientific publications
  • Smithsonian Exchange
  • Voyages and travels

Occupations:

  • Designer
  • Obstetrician and Gynecologist
  • Physicians

Places:

  • Labrador (N.L.) (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
  • Russia (as recorded)
  • Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador (as recorded)
  • MA, US