[Ditter]

I have friends who's daughter has marfans disease and she looks nothing like Abraham Lincoln in fact I would say she looks just the opposite of Abe. It is a connective tissue disease and her fingers had to be separated because they were connected. Also she has no neck.

[wideminded]

Lincoln did not have Marfan syndrome. People with Marfan have long thin fingers and tend to be weaker than normal. Lincoln displayed great strength, for example in wood-chopping demonstrations, and once during the Civil War, when he held a very heavy ax at arms length by the end of the handle. Also casts of Lincoln’s hands survive, which show his hands to be very strong and not like those of someone with Marfan syndrome.