Did Mary Lincoln need committal?

[RJNorton]

Thanks, Bill. It looks to me like someone may have plagiarized that article and posted it here without giving credit either to the magazine or the author. Unless there is another explanation I think someone long ago took Dr. Dresser's "cerebral disease" and translated it to mean "brain tumor." Others picked it up from there. That's all I can think of at the moment. On this forum, in other threads, we have discussed how an early author stated something without knowing the facts, and later authors just assumed the original writer was right and went with it.