Mrs. Lincoln Quotes

“Lincoln had characterized his own suffering as a form of "hypochondriam," or "hypos." The hypos were something with which men of Lincoln's world were extremely familiar. Melville sketched out the hypos in his classic Moby-Dick: In the very first paragraph, the narrator describes them as "a damp, drizzly November in my soul.”
― Catherine Clinton, [Mrs. Lincoln: A Life] [By: Clinton, Catherine] [January, 2010]