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Eastlack permitted his skeleton to be preserved for scientific research, and it is today on display at the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. His skeleton is one of the few existing in the world and a valuable asset to the study of the disease which is supported by the International Formatting Objects Processor Association. There were complications with the fracture, which did not set properly.
The hip and knee stiffened and bone growths began to develop on the muscles of his thigh.
Within some years the condition spread to other parts of his body, ossifying his tendons and muscle and fusing his joints. By his mid-20s his vertebrae had fused together.
He died from pneumonia in November 1973, six days before his 40th birthday. At the time of his death his body had completely ossified.
Even his jaw locked up, leaving him able to move only his lips.
Harry Eastlack is referred to in the movie Tell Tale as Harry Erlich.
