Talk:Health of Abraham Lincoln

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Abraham Lincoln was copied or moved into Medical and mental health of Abraham Lincoln with this edit on 17:40, 12 October 2009. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

September 2010[edit]

Just made a pretty big update. The books by Sotos are encyclopedic and thoroughly referenced. Plus, most of the text of the "Sourcebook" is available on-line, although it is somewhat difficult to get exactly to the place one needs to be. So I think it is reasonable to cite them heavily. Even so, when primary papers from the medical literature were available, I cited those. The new organization cleans up a lot of problems with the old one, which mixed a bunch of things together that did not really belong together. Drz1627 (talk) 05:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also made a couple updates to mental health. It is important not to use the word "depression," because that is a medical diagnosis and, as the article says, the diagnosis is not established. The better description is "depressed mood," which is not a medical diagnosis. Drz1627 (talk) 05:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strength[edit]

I recall stories about Lincoln being an exceptionally strong man. These are easily found with Google searches. Jason Quinn (talk) 19:00, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Body Habitus/height[edit]

I read this article and discovered what I think is an error. Under the paragraph Body Habitus/height it say he reached his adult height 5 feet. I believe he was over 6 feet and this needs to be fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.172.255.65 (talk) 11:31, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Adjusting the refs[edit]

The style of referencing - with the cite id merged in with a type of anchored parenthetical referencing - in this article is unusual. I am going to change the "cite id" to probably a straight Harvard style, both for maintenance purposes and so future editing will be more easily-accomplished by new editors. Figuring out exactly how to fix the cite-nomenclature will take me some time, if there are any objections speak up here. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 20:21, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]