On-line Full-text Index

An on-line index of the full text of The Physican Lincoln Sourcebook lets you search for any word or phrase, in any of the printings of the book. Click here.

 
Lincoln Photographs -- A Wiki

Mt. Vernon Book Systems is proud to furnish a photo-wiki containing every copyright-free photograph of Abraham Lincoln and his family known to the author.

 
Peer-Reviewed Articles

Medical journals have published articles by Dr. Sotos about the medical aspects of Lincoln's life and his mother's life.

• Abraham Lincoln did not have Type 5 Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA5)

  Shabby, superficial historical research in the 1990s generated the idea that Lincoln had SCA5. This article explains why there is no reason at all to believe that idea.

• Abraham Lincoln's Marfanoid Mother: The Earliest Known Case of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2B?

  This article settles, at last, a debate that arose in the 1960s: Did Abraham Lincoln inherit his odd looks from his mother or his father? The article clearly shows that, whatever disease of physical form that Lincoln had, his mother had it, too.

 
High-Order Scholarship

The Physical Lincoln and The Physical Lincoln Sourcebook are scholarly works of the highest order. Fact and speculation are clearly distinguished, and every statement is slavishly referenced.

Except for a few footnotes and endnotes, The Physical Lincoln is written without medical jargon, so any intelligent high school senior can understand it. Adults seem to comprehend it, too. :-)

The Physical Lincoln Sourcebook is a compendium of quotations from the Lincoln literature, organized by person and body-system. Primarily a resource for Lincoln scholars, its medical discussions are generally brief.

 
Updates

To ensure the books reflect the latest Lincoln scholarship, they will be periodically and frequently updated. As with software releases, each printing of the book will have its own version-number.