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Show A Singular Malady. Death has at last claimed the victim of a singular disease. Nine years ago David Yetter of Oakwood was assailed with rheumatism of a form that attacked at-tacked the joints. Progressive ossification ossifi-cation marked the case, the entire body being stiffened with the disease. The victim was at length unable to masticate food and relied on liquid nourishment. Then the jaws stiffened so that he could no longer open his mouth. A front tooth was extracted and through the opening thus provided was given the nourishment that added longer lease of a life that even under such conditions was preferable to death. When this came at last Yet-ter's Yet-ter's body had the hardness of stone. Detroit Tribune. |
