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This hypothesis suggests Lincoln had all the major features of the disease: a marfanoid body shape, large, bumpy lips, constipation, hypotonia, a history compatible with cancer—to which Sotos ascribes the death of Lincoln's sons Eddie, Willie, and Tad, and probably his mother.
4 gru 2007 · Stanford Cardiologist John Sotos said yesterday at a Johns Hopkins talk that Lincoln probably had a rare genetic syndrome, called MEN 2B. MEN 2B causes small, benign tumors to grow on victims ...
18 lut 2020 · At 6’ 4”, Lincoln was the tallest president, and also had unusually long and thin hands, feet, neck and face. Some doctors have suggested that he might have had Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue.
President Lincoln was ill when he returned from delivering his Gettysburg Address on November 20. Aide John Hay wrote on November 26, “The President quite unwell.” 49 He was effectively confined to bed with variloid for the next three weeks and treated by Dr. Robert K. Stone, the family physician in Washington.
29 paź 2014 · Pictures like Gardner's, bringing out his wrinkles and facial crevices, showed how fully he'd given his body up to the twin causes of union and emancipation. This Lincoln has been withered by the war years. By Feb. 5, 1865, the date of this photo, he appeared hollowed out.
Ever since President Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, questions, rumors and speculation have surrounded the medical aspects of his death and those connected with it. If the president had been rushed to a modern-day emergency room, would he have survived?
According to two medical researchers when Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863, he was in the early stages of a life-threatening illness -- a serious form of smallpox.
