An Analytical Biography of a Great Mind- by Edward J. Kempf
- PART I
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter I - Lincoln's Physical Costitution
- Hereditary Determination
- Hypersensitive Hypokinetic Constitution
- Meaning of Facial Asymmetries
- Fracture of Skull and Injury of Brain in Boyhood
- Diagnosis of Cerebral Lesion
- Diplopia and Eyestrain
- Borglum's Interpretation of Lincoln's Face
- Enigmatical Character of Facial Expression
- Preference for Photographs of Right Side of Face
- References
References
* Dr. Frechette's emphasis
{1} See Frontispiece. Lincoln's full face photograph, age 54.
{2} Illustration
No. 2. Life Mask by Volk, 1860.
{3} Illustration No. 3. Life Mask by Mills,
1865.
{4} Mock (1950) reports that about seven per cent of untreated
fractures of the skull in children end fatally. Most such fractures were
caused, before the automobile, by being kicked in the head. Electronic
recording has now shown that an appalling amount of damage to the brain,
heretofore unsuspected, follows from blows on the head, at the point
of impact and from hydrostatic repercussion (contra-coup), and through
the production of numerous, small (petechial) internal hemorrhages as
well as subdural blood clots, without external evidence of fracture.