Lincoln may have had facial defect reports the Associated Press.
“Laser scans of two life masks, made from plaster casts of Lincoln’s face, reveal the 16th president’s unusual degree of facial asymmetry, according to a new study.
The left side of Lincoln’s face was much smaller than the right, an aberration called cranial facial microsomia. The defect joins a long list of ailments – including smallpox, heart illness and depression – that modern doctors have diagnosed in Lincoln.
…Lincoln’s contemporaries noted his left eye at times drifted upward independently of his right eye, a condition now termed strabismus.“
Depression can make one side of your face small? Really. Wandering eye, huh. I guess he wasn’t seeing straight when he decided that emancipation was a good idea.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Minnesota have discovered a gene mutation in the descendants of Abraham Lincoln’s grandparents that suggests the Civil War president himself might have also suffered from a disease that destroys nerve cells in the cerebellum– the part of the brain that controls movement. – Medical Research News
He man has been dead a long, long time, but of all the presidents I hear more about his ailments and physical issues more than any other. I’ve read that he had disproportionately long arms and fingers. Due to a concussion as a youth, it’s said that he had attacks of transient aphasia, where Lincoln would drift off into another world or be asleep momentarily while apparently awake. It’s also been said that Lincoln may have had Marfan Syndrome, an inherited connective tissue disorder.
I can recall another president for whom I’ve heard of so much medical research.
So what if Lincoln had many disorders, or none at all? Does it diminish his greatness? What if he was depressed? If you’d had his job at the time he had it, could you have done it without becoming seriously depressed? Why is there someone always trying to find the negative side of things? If you want to publish something interesting, publish the good he accomplished in spite of his many ailments. I think that deserves more merit and respect than his hardships.
Abe Lincoln was not trying to free the slaves. He was doing just as other presidents of the country do. He was looking out for the economics of the people in power. He knew that as long as slavery existed, the northern half of the country which was introducing industry complete with technology would continue to withdraw. The south was dealing in possessions. They did not embrace technology quickly. It was also cheaper to use free labor than to pay for salaries. Not! The south was just as it is today, one track thinking.
Abe wanted to release us from servitude and put us on an island out in the carribbean without provisions. Some people were taken there. Once the war began, he knew that there was but one choice, emacipate all the dark complexion people so the north would get on with their textile advancement. Other countries were already using technology. China, russia, England, France were all using machinery. So the dark people were turned out on the street with a promise very similar to what the native Americans got – 40 acres and a mule. That was a stupid promise. What would a mule do when technology was where we were going as a nation? 40 acres of raw land? with a mule? We would have lost our shirts. So let’s be thankful that the diseased disfigured man in power at the time, did what he thought was correct for the nation. We benefitted. Get off the subject. Abe is no hero. He did his job.
Al Gibson, AMEN. I COULDN’T HAVE SAID ANY OF IT BETTER MYSELF.
The truth speaks VOLUMES.
Abe was no hero, he was looking out for whitey.
I agree Abe was no Hero, The truth does speak volumes but take this into consideration. History repeats it’s self and as far as it does digress no nation has remained shackled in slavery. Oppression always has been stopped by the oppressed and people regardless of race will always refuse to stay enslaved by its enslavers. So whether it was the Emancipation Proc. or some other means it freedom was inevitable. It was only a matter of time.
TC Ralph
Thank you all, I was not aware of what was going on with the lincoln area. I Think I was miseducated, starting in elementary school. I had no idea.
This was very interesting. Thanks for the insight.
Abe was one of the best presidents and although I’m white, I agree with him. many of my friends’ parents are members of the KKK and my friends disagree with them so they are disowned and put in foster homes or they have to either fend for themselves or go and live with other family members. Abe would have stuck up for them and he would have helped them like he helped the slaves.
Abe is AWESOME!!!^.^
He is my home S/l/i/c/e/^.^