BRITTLE MAN.
RECOVERY AFTER TREAT' MENT IN 59 HOSPITALS.
Mr Allan Rushbrooke, known as “the brittle man” from the rare disease which resulted in his muscles turning into a bone-like substance, has now made such progress towards recovery as to enable him to become a successful gardener. He has won a second prize for carnations at a flower show at Raynes Park, Surrey, where he is being treated at St. John’s Lodge Nursing Home. After being an inmate of over 50 hospitals, he is now recovering rapidly. To get his prize he walked a quarter of a mile, half the distance being over very rough ground. Yet, when he first entered the London Homoepathic Hospital his body was so rigid that he could not lie with even a thin bolster under his head, and it was a triumph when he could raise his right foot sufficiently to step on to a thin doormat. He could then only put on his spectacles by using a pair of tongs. But lately he has been cutting the creepers on the roof of a greenhouse. He drew them down with a long hoe and then clipped them.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1014, 24 October 1912, Page 4
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193BRITTLE MAN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1014, 24 October 1912, Page 4
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