NEW YORK—Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809 and became president of the U.S. Alexander Skene was born in Scotland in 1838 and became a gynecologist. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Dr. Skene discovered Skene's glands.

Lincoln visited Brooklyn in 1860, before he was elected president. Brooklyn is where Dr. Skene spent his whole career. In fact, he is the only doctor in Brooklyn history to have a body part named after him.

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