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[Footnote 1: "The preamble and resolution were signed by Philo Tillson,
President, and S. L. Andrews, Secretary, of the Northeastern District
Medical Association of Michigan, as having been adopted by that
Association, at its annual meeting, held on the 19th day of May, 1864,
and which its delegate, Dr. Stockwell, was instructed to present to the
Association."--_Trans. Am. Med. Association_, 1864, p. 60.]
[Footnote 2: Now that the decision of the Prize Committee has been
made, the purpose of the above stipulation becomes evident. The
Committee consisted of Drs. D. Humphreys Storer, Henry I. Bowditch, J.
Mason Warren, and John H. Dix, of Boston; the Chairman of the Committee
being the writer's father.]
[Footnote 3: The Committee consisted of Drs. H. R. Storer, of Boston;
T. W. Blatchford, of Troy, N. Y.; H. L. Hodge, of Philadelphia; C. A.
Pope, of St. Louis; Barton, of South Carolina; A. Lopez, of Mobile; and
W. H. Brisbane, of Arena, Wis.]
[Footnote 4: Studies of Abortion; Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,
February 5, 1863.]
[Footnote 5: Transactions of the American Medical Association, 1859,
vol. xii. p. 75.]
[Footnote 6: Percival: Medical Ethics, p. 79.]
[Footnote 7: Man Transformed, Oxford, 1653.]
[Footnote 8: Regina _v._ Wycherly, 8 Carrington and Payne, 265.]
[Footnote 9: Criminal Abortion in America, p. 5.]
[Footnote 10: Owen: Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, vol. iii. p.
322.]
[Footnote 11: Naegele: Treatise on Obstetric Auscultation, p. 50.]
[Footnote 12: Studies of Abortion: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,
February 5, 1863.]
[Footnote 13: Criminal Abortion in America, p. 42.]
[Footnote 14: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 42.]
[Footnote 15: Studies of Abortion, &c.]
[Footnote 16: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 106.]
[Footnote 17: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 34.]
[Footnote 18: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 32.]
[Footnote 19: H. R. Storer: The Causation, Course, and Treatment of
Insanity in Women; a gynæcist's idea thereof. Transactions of the
American Medical Association, vol. xvi., 1865.]
[Footnote 20: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 13.]
[Footnote 21: A Woman's Thoughts about Women. By the author of "John
Halifax, Gentleman," p. 14.]
[Footnote 22: Essay on Criminal Abortion, p. 55.]
[Footnote 23: Introductory Lecture at University of Pennsylvania, 1854,
p. 19.]
[Footnote 24: Essay, &c., p. 101.]
[Footnote 25: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, editorial, December
13, 1855.]
[Footnote 26: Essay, &c., p. 106.]