Show RARE MALADY TURNING BOYS BOY'S BODY TO STONE Youth Fa Fades Faces es Future With Smile Despite Slight Chance of Recovery BARRE WILKES Pa 1 March arch 30 UP UP Little Little Benny Hendrick whose frail raU body is Is' gr gradually dually becoming petrified faced the future with ia a cheery smile Friday A victim of ot otone one of the rarest diseases diseases dis- dis eases ases known to medical medic l s science the thc muscles in the youngsters youngster's body are slowly turning to a a rocklike substance Physicians ians in the general hospital where he was brought from his home homet at t Larksville said he had only a slight chance hance chanced of recovery S I Benny propped up stiffly in a chair had ad a different idea I Ill IllS soon LOOn be out and arid playing he smiled with all the assurance of ot his years Ill soon be better The youngsters youngster's thin white arms are areas areas ares as s hard as stone His legs are like pieces of rock his back has the feel of f granite B Bennys Benny's ailment is known medically as p or or a progressive ossification of the tissues tissues sues of the body The disease caus causes 1 deposits of calcium to form in the tissues tissues sues which rapidly harden them When a vital organ is reached death results |