Her Body Turning Slowly Into Bone

1920

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- Mrs. Levi Shroyer, 27, presents to the medical world one of the most baffling cases in history. Experts, the world over, have studied her malady without being able to help her.

The woman's body, from her jaws to her hips, slowly is ossifying. It is feared ossification soon will reach the heart, causing death.

The strange affliction sized Mrs. Shroyer in 1916, shortly after an operation.

Mrs. Shroyer was brought here from the South to take chiropractic treatments.

While under treatment at one time she lapsed into a state of coma. Her heart stopped bearing for five minutes and afterward, she declared, she experienced the feeling of entering another world and having been in the arms of her late husband.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 1.