Lincoln was known to have taken "blue mass," a pill containing mercury, apparently to treat his persistent "melancholia," (then known also as hypochondriasis.) In 1861, a few months after the ...

During the 1850s Lincoln, by nature a friendly and balanced person ... At the outset of the war he determined to abandon the blue mass pills because, he said, they "made him cross". Thereafter, while ...

The article builds a case that the pills Lincoln took for depression gave him ... The essay mentioned Lincoln taking a substance called “blue mass,” a common medication made with mercury. Hirschhorn ...

Blue Mass pills were used widely and often ineffectually ... dehydration and diarrhoea – a well as a violent temper. Lincoln decided to abandon the pills at the outset of the American Civil ...

"If Lincoln hadn't recognized that the little ... Scientists recreated a 19th-century recipe for the pill known as "blue mass," which was often prescribed for persistent depression.

The Royal Society of Chemistry is the first organisation to unearth an actual sample of the notorious blue pills, believed to have goaded President Lincoln to wild rages of temper, and to analyse ...

Abraham Lincoln in his pre-presidential years took blue mass mercury pills (the reason is not entirely clear, but may have involved headaches, depression, and constipation). In those days ...