Pearson Medical History Lecture is Monday

President Abraham Lincoln is the case study as the SIU School of Medicine examines the possible effects of mercury poisoning on personality at the 10th annual Emmet F. Pearson Memorial Medical History Lecture.

The free lecture is at 6 p.m., Monday, Aug. 29, in the School of Medicine's South Auditorium, 801 N. Rutledge St. in Springfield.

"Lincoln's Little Blue Pills," will be presented by Dr. Ian A. Greaves, associate dean of research and associate professor of environmental health sciences at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Greaves is also director of the Midwest Center for Occupational Safety and Health in Minneapolis.

Dr. Emmet F. Pearson, a Springfield physician who died in June 1996, was professor emeritus in the School of Medicine's internal medicine and medical humanities departments. The school's medical museum is named in Pearson's honor.