Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-20
PETRIFIED ALIVE.
Strange and Agonizing Sufferings of .
LOckport IN. Y.D Lady.

Strange and Agonizing Sufferings of .
LOckport IN. Y.) Lady.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burridge Bullock, daughter
of Mr.. Benjamin Burridge. of Lockport, n.
Y, who died recently, says the Baltimore
Herald, was sufferer from strange all
ment. She was, so to speak, in an almost
complete state of Justification for the past
five years, and her joints had become stiff
ened so that it was impossible for her to
live. She was most intense sufferer from
the pain attendant upon the advances of the
disease. The contracting and drawing of
the bones and cords of the body was agonl-
zing. To see the frightful, distorted and
emaciated remains of what was once a beau
tiful and perfect woman would give only a
partial idea of what Mrs. Bullock suffered
The lady was thirty-six years old at the
time of her death. When thirteen years of
age she was plump girl, attendant upon
the Washburn Street School here One day.
with other playmates, she climbed a tree
and was dared 10 jump from one of tho
branches. This she did, breaking her collar
bone and injuring her right knee. A swell
ing appeared on the inside OF the knee,
which troubled her more or less as the years
advanced. In 1873 medical aid was first
called in to treat her for her knee, the pain
from which had grown to be quite severe,
she having caught cold in the member while
skating. She married in 1874 Some years
later her bones began to stiffen and trouble
her some. Five years ago the joints became
hardened and ossiaed and she was helpless.
Her teeth were all drawn out from the up
per jaw and both jaws set. Physicians Ia.
serted a piece of thin wood between the
lower set of teeth and the gains TO keen the
teeth from iDjuring them. 1t was about
three months after the first appearance of
the ridgidity of the bones before the body
was completely affected Her health was
completely undermined. and the last five
years She has been falling gradually
from day TO day. The eject can be realized
when from a strong, healfhfuI woman weigh
ing one hundred and eight pounds, she faded
away to almost mere skeleton, weighing
only thirty pounds when she died.
her joints not only hardened, but the
cords of her body contracted and drew them
INTO all manner of shapes. The hip JOINT on
the right side was completely ont of the
socket, and protruded frightfully. The left
limb was drawn out OF all shape as were
the hands and head. She subsisted on food
prepared for her. She fed herself. tooth
in the lower set being removed 70 admit the
nourishment, Fer right hand was notion
less, but her left was able to guide little.
She WIS thus enabled to write some. She
read easily. and talked readily TO the time OF
her death,
For the past three years Hrs. Bullock re-
sided with her father She was patient,
and never was known TO complain. The
only similar case. and then II Is not In such
marked degree-as this, Is that Of Jonathan
Bass, the ossifed man, OF Lewiston Bass
is perfectly rigid. but mas not the contrac-
ton Of his joints Mrs. Ballock's disease is
called chalky govt and chaIfxy rheumatism,
alsa many other names pertaining to dis
eases Of the bone.