(12-08-2019 03:44 PM)Mylye2222 Wrote:  

(11-18-2012 08:31 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  It might be said that Lincoln was "Marfan-like" because of his physical size.

Sure, and Marfa-Like doesn't mean you have the syndrome actually. And when he was thin and looked sick, it was during the Presidency, with all the stress he had to take endure. And intense anxiety can cut any appetite.

Good point. Absolutely.

Well, we don't know it. Abraham Lincoln's shape certainly does make one think of the possibility, also as in every patient diseases turn out differently severe, not everyone shows all symptoms to the same degree (or nor at all). However, I find it a bit amazing that he obviously isn't allowed to have had this disease. (One of my profs would say every patient, or everyone, has the right to even suffer from more than one disease...)

(12-09-2019 05:35 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Well, we don't know it. Abraham Lincoln's shape certainly does make one think of the possibility, also as in every patient diseases turn out differently severe, not everyone shows all symptoms to the same degree (or nor at all). However, I find it a bit amazing that he obviously isn't allowed to have had this disease. (One of my profs would say every patient, or everyone, has the right to even suffer from more than one disease...)

Years ago, I watched this tennis-ball of a medical theory bounce back and forth; frankly, I think we have to go with the comments that the "autopsy" doctors made about Lincoln's muscular physique. Then, we should pay attention to the late-Dr. John Lattimer and also our own forum member, Dr. Edward Steers, Jr. -- the latter spent years in the hierarchy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health as well as being an expert in the Lincoln field.

Laurie - I don't think the said physical strength rules it out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Austin
I also don't mean to say he did have Marfan, but that it's IMO 50:50 - we just don't know. What I did mean to say is that it seems not "allowed to be" that Abraham Lincoln could have had a disease like this, or to mis-quote Wild Bill - if it did happen like this it shouldn't have. He doesn't seem to have the right having had a disease