BRITTLE MAN.
RECOVERY AFTER- TREATMENT IN 50 HOSPITALS. Me. Allan Rtjshbrooke, 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 lias won a second prize for carnations at a flower show at Rayncs Park, Surrey, where he is being treated at St. John's Lodge Nursing Home. After being an inmate of over 50 hospitals and institutions, 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 Homcepathic 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 ho could raise his rrdit foot sufficiently to step on to a thin door-, mat. 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15122, 12 October 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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