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Lincoln
may
have
had
facial
defect
By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
30 minutes ago
CHICAGO - Artists, sculptors and photographers knew Abraham Lincoln's face had a good side. Now it's
confirmed by science. Laser scans of two life masks, made from plaster casts of Lincoln's face, reveal the
16th president's unusual degree of facial asymmetry, according to a new study.
» All news video Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum described the left side of Lincoln's face as primitive, immature
and unfinished.
When Lincoln was a boy, he was kicked in the head by a horse. Laser scans can't settle whether the kick
or a developmental defect — or neither — contributed to Lincoln's lopsided face, Fishman said.
The scanning technique is usually used to create 3-D images of children with cleft lip and palate before
and after surgery. Fishman teamed up with Dr. Adriana Da Silveira, an Austin, Texas, orthodontist who
specializes in children with facial defects, to scan a bronze and a plaster copy of two life masks, owned
by the Chicago History Museum.
Life masks were in vogue in the 1860s, said James Cornelius, curator at the Lincoln Presidential Library
in Springfield, Ill.
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