Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-10
A BIC PAIR OF LUNGS,
Phenomenal Human Being Who
 will Never Die of Consumption.

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 From the Chicago News.
 Several days ago tall, ell-proportioned man entered Clark street clothing store. He wanted to buy suit of clothes. A sales man with pipestem legs and banged mustache smirked his happiness, trotted around in dustriousiy for ten minutes, and finally spread before the tall man number of new and choice patterns. ''The vest is all I care to try" said the latter, with meaning smile One was put on. The salesman cheerfully guaranteed that the buttons would withstand all kinds of weather and rough treatment. The tall man strengthened up, opened his mouth, and went through rapid process of inhalation. Off flew the horn buttons in all directions. The salesman looked aghast, and several others gathered around to share his unspeakable surprise Two other vests were tested, and the buttons suffered a simi- lar fate. ''I guess you can't suit me" said the tall, proportional man, and left A few minutes later he paused in front of a lung-tes Washington street. He paid ten cents for blow. Then he blew into a long rubber tube, and when, after having registered the full capacity of the machine, he blew chunk of rubber out of the tube, the tall, -proportioned man grinned sar QOn1callN, Sdld It WdS T6tl1y tOO DdO, anu walked on about his business
 F'He swells up like a turkey gobbler," said Dr. s. A. McWilliams, in the amphitheatre of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the medical man referred to the tall well proportioned man, Thomas Wilson, Mr Will son is blacksmith. A number of medical students and representatives of the press had just witnessed his wonderful power of chest expansion. He said that when he was boy, twenty years ago in Scotland, he saw circus performer exhibiting the expansibility of his chest. After very little practice he could excel the circus man, and he had never since met a man whose breathing powers equalled his own. He had practised nearly every day for nearly twenty years, and had never ex- perienced any ill effects. In the lecture room he stripped to the waist, showing strong, full chest, and normal muscular develop ment. His chest measurement in repose was found to be thirty-eight inches Expelling the air from his lungs his chest contracted to thirty-four and half. Allowing his lungs to fill slowly, his chest began to swell until it was seemingly twice as large as the natural size After it had remained fully expanded for a moment Dr. McWilliams asked if the operation was painful Wilson answered, 'Not at all," repeating the con- traction and expansion so quickly that it made the doctors eyes bulge out of his head and hestudents burst into shouts of laugh ter The chest measured when fully expanded forty-two and g half inches. Dr. McWilliams said it was most remarkable case, and he had never witnessed anything like it.
 About year ago Dr. Steele had called his attention to the of a man possessing such lung development. On consulting his note book the doctor found reference had been had to the same Thomas Wilson that was now before them. Dr. McWilliams added that daily exercise in expanding the lungs was highly beneficial. Whenever I have slight cold," said he, s'I practise it for day or two, and the cold leaves me- This man can never have consumption so long as he can expand and contract the air cells in his lungs" To satisfy the curiosity of the students Dr. McWilliams said without trace of a smile: ''So long as he can do this, catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membrane will not extend ioto the pulmo- nary alveoli, and the proliferation Of the al veolar epithelium, and consequent cessation are prevented" Wilson nearly tainted in his chair, and the students rushed off in search of medical dictionaries