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Article: Lincoln may have had smallpox at Gettysburg
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2007
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CHICAGO (AP) - Abraham Lincoln has been dead for 142 years, but he
still manages to make medical headlines, this time from doctors who
say he had a bad case of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg
Address.
Physicians said recently that Lincoln might have survived being
shot if today's medical technology had existed in 1865.
"If you play doctor, it's difficult to shut down the diagnostic
process" when reading about historical figures, said Dr. Armond
Goldman, an immunology specialist and professor emeritus at the
University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He and a colleague
"diagnosed" serious smallpox in Lincoln after scouring historical
documents, biographies and old newspaper ...