The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
MAN LIVES WITH STONES IN H|SLUNGS Forty-Seven Extracted But Thirty Still Remain IS IN EXCELLENT HEALTH A Peculiar Case Said to Be Unknown Heretofore In Medical Science
 Is That of Denver
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IS IN EXCELLENT HEALTH

Denver. Col, Saturday.-A strange case heretofore said to have been unknown to medical science has been discovered in Denver. William M Robertson. whom physicians have named the human quarry carries more than thirty stones in his lungs and forty-seven have been extracted by artificial methods by sur geons.
 Robertson, who was for years a wealthy real estate dealer living in Kansas City is now living at No. 1922 Winona court, in Denver. The physicians who attended him while he lay on his back, unable to move for two years in Kansas City reported the case to the National Medical association.
 He was examined by the finest lung specialists. who were unable to determine which branches were involved, and finally 'the profession all over the world had it's attention called to the phenomenon The London Lancet published several accounts of Robertsons case. together with chem ical analysis at different times of the stones found in his lungs.
 Robertson deriver little benefit in Kan sas City. and on the advice of Dr. Murphy of Chicago he came to Denver as the last resort of q dying man. He was placed in a hospital here and the sisters coaxed his wavering soul back into healthy body in six days when he was pronounced ont of danger. On arriving here he weighed one hundred and nine pounds and in less than a year he regained his former flesh. and now tius the scales at two hundred and six pounds.
 
 Robertson thus told his story: Here is bottle containing forty-seven stones. An X-ray photograph, taken recently, shows that there are still thirty more remaining in my lungs This is how it happened: I was a victim of tuberculosis. although thanks to your ozone and three hundred and fifteen days of sunshine during the last year I don't look like it now. I had fifty hemorrhages in two months, and one day I lost six pounds.
 ''When I came to Denver year ago thought it was all over. But my wife was hopeful I was placed in an icepaclS that covered the entire torso. I was literally frozen. The extreme cold coagu- lated the blood and stiffened the walls of the arteries that had broken. But then fresh danger more horrible than the first unexpectedly arose.
 The blood in hardening. formed a pc cnlar membraneous tissue on the walls of the arteries. This film acted just like a dam in a river. The pulsing blood was checked slightly in it's flow, and as re- suit the mineral properties dropped and formed q deposit. Nearly two hundred of these deposits formed in my lungs. I was as near an ossified man as I could be.
 These deposits contained salts. iron in fact all the numerous minerals found in the blood. and especially lime Through special treatment we managed to work forty-seven of these stones grad ually loose. and they passed on through the arteries all right. but when they came to the tiny capillares they broke the lung tissue However, we finally got them into the bronchial tubes and 1 coughed them out.
 Hard as Stones.
 '.1hese deposits had been literally hard ened Into actual stones as dense as gran. ite. The most peculiar property of these stones is that they eXhipt double re- fraction of light almost as high as regu- lar polariing prisnls.
 "l here are still thirty stones in my lungs that 1 never hope to get out. A surgical operation would give me septi- oaemia, the doctors say because the stones are capsulized in bags filled with the deadly poison of pus and matter.
 "A doctor recently took a skagraph of my lungs, which shows very large stone as big as d lima bean. situated near where the right pneumogastric enters the chest cavity in from of the sub-clavian artery and still another as large is lodged in the back part of the root of the right lung, where it is breaking into the posterior pulmonary plexus and may seriously af- feet the sympathetic nerve.
 f'I have coughed up most of the forty seven stones but a few have been regur- eitated through the nasal passages while l was asleep. l have suffered a great deal from involutary sobbing and vomiting, in diiced by excessive irrtability of the vagus and lower lungs
 William M. Robertson says that he has something to live for. his wife Is the mother of three pairs of twins-Grover Quay and Nova May are II years old Ernestine and Irene are years old. and Paul and Celeste are ? years old.
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