PETRIFIED WHILE LIVING.
A very strange story--but Its authenticity is vouched for by the newspapers of Colorado, where the extraordinary thing is said to have happened, A pri speroue Coloradan named Taylor began to feel an unusual heaviness in his cheeks, the muscles growing stiff’ and the skin visibly hardening. His trUnis were disposed to be merry over his complaints, but he regarded them as having serious gr unda. He steadily grew worse, and at ihe end of seven days both sides.of his face had assumed the solidity of marble. He was unable to hold his head np so heavy had it become. His eyes took a atony glit’er; his neck grew hard, wi h other parts of the body, and in a few days later he died.' His attending physicians considered it a case of veritable petrifaction, which continued after death until the whole frame seemed to have turned to stone. Taylor was eighty-two years old. Before he had begun to suffer fiom the extraordinary disease he weighed 162 h ; four days after his death he weighed more than 6001 b. The Denver doctors have put forward various th orie«, one to the ttfecfc that the phenomenon must have a-iseu from an excess of carbonate of lime in his system, but none of them have explained the matter satisfactorily. Taylor could talk until an hour before his end, and with his latest breath ordered that his body should be sent to the Smithsonian institution for scientific examination.— Washington Republic.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1370, 14 October 1886, Page 2
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250PETRIFIED WHILE LIVING. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1370, 14 October 1886, Page 2
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