[Faline]

When Harry Eastlack was 5 years old, he broke his left leg while out playing with his sister. The fracture failed to set properly, and soon his hip and knee had stiffened up as well. Examining the boy, doctors found ominous bony growths on the muscles of his thigh. Within a few years, bony deposits had spread throughout Harry’s body, infiltrating his chest, neck, back and buttocks. Surgeons tried to cut the excess bone away, only to watch it grow back thicker and more invasive than before.

By his mid-20s, his vertebrae had fused together, his torso been thrust rigidly forward and his back muscles replaced with solid bone. Finally, even his jaw locked up, and he died of pneumonia in 1973, just shy of his 40th birthday.

Mr. Eastlack had requested that his skeleton be preserved for scientific research, and today it can be seen at the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia — or rather, they can be seen. As the developmental biologist Armand Marie Leroi has observed in his book “Mutants,” Mr. Eastlack’s skeleton, with its “extra sheets, struts and pinnacles of bone,” amounts to “that of a 40-year-old man encased in another skeleton, but one that is inchoate and out of control.”

Mr. Eastlack suffered from a rare and poorly understood congenital disease called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, in which cuts, bruises and trauma to the body, no matter where they occur, end up being “repaired” by cells designed for building bone.

[Viking64]

Well I'll be fucked hard!!!

[corpsehands]

that is an incredibly fucked up disorder...if i had that id have been a statue years ago

[kellyhound]

so if he cut his dick open in some way there would grow a boner back.

[King Herald]

Jeez, whoever says that there is a god somewhere overseeing all this shit must truly have the wrong idea about what 'gods' are supposed to be.

[collaredgirl65]

[carkees]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

so if he cut his dick open in some way there would grow a boner back.

[wujuan]

oh boy

[DiamondSmiles]

That has to be very painful when your bones go wherever they will and you get weird growths. I have to go to that Mutter Museum and get their books and scan stuff for here.

[Spiffyfable]

Fucking weird... just when I thought I couldn't be surprised...