I recently visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and was interested to hear an artist point out that President Lincoln had a "drifting" left eye. He had been kicked in the head by a horse when he was a child and they speculated this may have caused his lazy eye. Others have speculated that he had facial microsomia, that one side of his face, especially the orbital area was actually smaller that the other. See what you think.
- The History of Presidential Eye Problems:Why 'Honest Abe' Couldn't Look You Straight in the Eye and Other Eyesight Challenges of U.S. Presidents - American Academy of Ophthalmology: https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/vision-history-presidential-eye-problems.
- Lincoln's craniofacial microsomia: three-dimensional laser scanning of 2 Lincoln life masks. Arch Ophthalmol. 2007 Aug;125(8):1126-30.
By T.P. Pearson, Macomb, IL - Carl Schurz, Reminiscences, Volume Two, McClure Publishing Co., 1907, facing p. 84, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5334391
It is mentioned that it was his left eye. Is this photo reversed?
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