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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._

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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