BRITTLE GIRL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 2

BRITTLE GIRL.

DISEASE'THAT CATTsk'm'TJ&CLES TO .. ; " HABDEN INTO BONE. ■ Lvins -l)Mp]SSs in nn'ar i nichiir..at the Homoeopathic Itotpital , in Great :Orinond Street, London, )V.C, is ft pirl of fifteen named-Edith' Winter, of Boundary liane, Caniberwcll, S.E., \vho>is Ruffprin|? from. a : mysterious diseuse rchieh iS causing, her muscles" to turn into bone. It is the Bftniq ■disease that attacked Allan Ruthiirook, known is the "brittle man,"' who'lcft (lie enmo hospitnl partly .cured some months ago. ' The disease began to develop soon after birth, nnd she was taken to the hospital about a month ago. Since then a lew of improvement have been observed in her condition. She cannot walk or even stand unsupported, andean liardlv move her head at all, ns the.muscles of tho neck and oil either • sido of Iho ftico hMC largely tttrned to I»ne. The muscles of the jaw have also hardened, and it is with tOmG diftieulty that fche is ablo to «tit. , , ■ , Great care has to be exercised in lrtorilii' her "If she were to , fall the hardened" muscles miftlit jMk." Paid a <loctor. "When 1 lift her," said one of the hospital iiWscS, "1 fuOl'ftS ■though I am holding ft bundio of sticks." It ij four yMrs since Edith, took her last -Wnlk.