Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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Marfan syndrome and Abraham Lincoln
Umut Akova Atlanta, Georgia, United States The earliest presidential portrait of Lincoln. Salt print, 1787. Via Wikimedia. Marfan syndrome is a rare, inherited genetic disorder that affects the body’s connective tissues. People with Marfan syndrome often have distinctive physical features such as tall stature, long limbs, joint hypermobility, and a narrow face. The condition is…
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Samuel Mudd, MD: Good Samaritan or conspirator?
Kevin R. Loughlin Boston, Massachusetts, United States Figure 1 Samuel A. Mudd, MD. Wikimedia. As he rose in the Washington, D.C. courtroom on June 30, 1865, to hear his verdict, Dr. Samuel Mudd looked older than his thirty-one years (Figure 1). His odobene mustache framed his mouth and his goatee was speckled with prematurely…
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Blood relics and contemporary memory
Robbie Porter Worcester, England Basement room of the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, where the Russian Imperial Family was executed. Investigator Nicholas Sokolov apparently recovered 13 drops of blood from here. Via Wikipedia. Public domain. In the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich there is an exhibit, carefully preserved in an environmentally conditioned case, which is…
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Hammond, Lincoln, and the emergence of American neurology
Jack Riggs Morgantown, West Virginia, United States Surgeon General William A. Hammond. Public domain. All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts. – William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s words describe the extraordinary life of…