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Horatio Robinson Storer (February 27, 1830– September 18, 1922) was an American physician, numismatist, and anti-abortion activist.
Storer was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended the Boston Latin School, Harvard College, and the Boston (Harvard) Medical School. After obtaining his M.D. in 1853 he travelled to Europe and spent a year studying with James Young Simpson at Edinburgh. He began medical practice in Boston in 1855 with emphasis on obstetrics and gynaecology.
In 1869 Storer founded the Gynaecological Society of Boston, the first medical society devoted exclusively to gynaecology, publish the first gynaecology journal, the Journal of the Gynaecological Society of Boston.
After his retirement from practice in 1872, he became an authority on, and a notable collector of, medallions of medical interest.