Antedating of "Abortionist"

[George Thompson]

I seem to be doddering.  I thought someone had posted here recently to
ask for earlier uses of the word abortionist, but all I find in the
archives is this message from Fred of 15 months ago.  Thompson's law
is, things always happened much longer ago than you remember, but. . . .

However!  Whether anyone has been clamoring for it or not, I do have a
nice antedating of Fred's antedating:

Mad. Restell, the celebrated Abortionist [is arrested; the Sun and the
Herald carry "profuse and constant ads for her services].  New-York
Daily Tribune, March 26, 1844, p. 2, col. 3

If any of the lexicographers among us want a more complete sentence
than the five words of direct transcription here, I will get it.

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
Date: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:33 pm
Subject: Antedating of "Abortionist"

> abortionist (OED 1872)
>
> 1861 _Lancet_ 23 Mar. 295  The trade of the abortionist ... has
> become a
> regularly established, money-making business, carried on by both
> sexes.
> Fred Shapiro
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