Why not? A book for every woman

by Horatio Robinson Storer

WHY NOT?

A BOOK FOR EVERY WOMAN.

The Prize Essay

TO WHICH THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
AWARDED THE GOLD MEDAL
FOR MDCCCLXV.

BY

HORATIO ROBINSON STORER, M.D.,

OF BOSTON,

Assistant in Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence in Harvard University; Surgeon
to the New England Hospital for Women; and Professor of Obstetrics
and the Diseases of Women in Berkshire Medical College.

ISSUED FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION, BY ORDER OF THE

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

Casta placent superis. Casta cum mente venito,
Et manibus puris sumito fontis aquam.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD.
1866.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
LEE AND SHEPARD,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

At the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Boston in June, 1865, it was, upon recommendation of the Section on Practical Medicine and Obstetrics,—

Resolved, That the Committee on Publication be requested to adopt such appropriate measures as will insure a speedy and general circulation of the Prize Essay written for women; provided this can be done without expense to the Association.

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