[2] She conducted "one of the largest medical studies of that era" on approximately 3000 young tuberculosis patients from admission to age 25.
Her findings included that younger children were more likely to die, that poorer children were more likely to get the disease in the first place, and that combining streptomycin with other antibiotics led to improved outcomes.
[3] She also served as a professor of pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine.
[2] Lincoln received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award in 1951 and the Trudeau Medal of the National Tuberculosis Association in 1959.
[2] She co-authored with Edward Sewell a 1963 book called Tuberculosis in Children, considered a seminal text in the field.