Talk:Health of Abraham Lincoln

September 2010
Just made a pretty big update. The books by Sotos are encyclopedic and thoroughly referenced. Plus, most of the text of the "Sourcebook" is available on-line, although it is somewhat difficult to get exactly to the place one needs to be. So I think it is reasonable to cite them heavily. Even so, when primary papers from the medical literature were available, I cited those. The new organization cleans up a lot of problems with the old one, which mixed a bunch of things together that did not really belong together. Drz1627 (talk) 05:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Also made a couple updates to mental health. It is important not to use the word "depression," because that is a medical diagnosis and, as the article says, the diagnosis is not established. The better description is "depressed mood," which is not a medical diagnosis. Drz1627 (talk) 05:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Strength
I recall stories about Lincoln being an exceptionally strong man. These are easily found with Google searches. Jason Quinn (talk) 19:00, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Body Habitus/height
I read this article and discovered what I think is an error. Under the paragraph Body Habitus/height it say he reached his adult height 5 feet. I believe he was over 6 feet and this needs to be fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.172.255.65 (talk) 11:31, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Adjusting the refs
The style of referencing - with the cite id merged in with a type of anchored parenthetical referencing - in this article is unusual. I am going to change the "cite id" to probably a straight Harvard style, both for maintenance purposes and so future editing will be more easily-accomplished by new editors. Figuring out exactly how to fix the cite-nomenclature will take me some time, if there are any objections speak up here. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 20:21, 20 July 2019 (UTC)