Did Mary Lincoln need committal?

[RJNorton]

(04-05-2014 09:50 AM)Gene C Wrote:  Do we know what kind of remedies she may have taken for her health problems?

Gene, I have read that she took a lot of paregoric. I do not recall where I read that and do not know if it's true. Most likely it was in the Mariah Vance book edited by Lloyd Ostendorf and Walter Oleksy. Mr. James O. Hall reviewed that book and showed it is not a reliable source.