Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or, as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, material objects, or the like.
Abe Lincoln's mother died of milk sickness caused from â¦ drinking the milk of a cow that has grazed on the poisonous white snakeroot. Nancy Lincoln died at the age of 34 when Abe was 9.
In addition, he said, her parents were cousins, with ancestors from a part of Scotland where pernicious anemia was found in the 1960s to be unusually common. Dr. Sotos said he hoped the diagnosis would lead historians to look more kindly on Mrs. Lincoln as âsimply a woman with a biochemically injured mind.â.