"STONE-HEARTED."
SAN FRANCISCO, September 16. Mrs. Regina Dramy, "the woman with the stone heart," is dead. Kept alive a year and a half after a delicate operation, the 40-year-old woman died from calcification of the heart muscles here yesterday. The malady is rare, physicians stating her case wag one of only six on record in medical history. Last year Mrs. Dramy, wife of a San Francisco attorney, was spared death when three physicians chipped away a layer of calcium that was impeding her heart action. The doctors, Harold Brunn, A. L. Brown and George Hartmann, cut a "window" in the patient's chest to reach the heart muscles, around which the stone-like layer was encrusted. Her partial recovery was rapid, and within a few days she was able to sit in a wheel chair. The growth, however, continued, and she was brought here recently after her heart action was greatly impeded. This time the stone had encroached too fw..v
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 247, 17 October 1936, Page 15
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