Decapitation of the Union

[Eva Elisabeth]

I don't understand what exactly Dr. Soto wants to claim or prove - that Dr. Curtis' description is non-telling (to a doctor - but was he addressing doctors?), or that his account was wrong and the opposite (whatever that looks like) true? I think he can't prove anything, IMO there's not even an indication strong enough to seriously suspect anything. Even if Dr. Curtis embellished a bit - why shouldn't there have been a grain of truth in that Lincoln was not a total physical weakling and pushover? (Did Dr. Soto comment on the ax story?) In the end, we don't know, but Dr. Soto can't know any better either.
And just to help Dr. Soto's imagination (which is obviously limited to the set of technical terms) - this is my idea of well-rounded muscles: