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Peter Cluckey:
Two months after 22-year-old Peter Cluckey re-enlisted in the US Army in 1904, he was diagnosed with chronic rheumatism affecting many of his joints. Despite a variety of treatments, his condition worsened until nearly every join in his body became fused.
Before he died at age 43, Cluckey arranged to donate his body to this Museum. An autopsy determined that Cluckey had suffered from severe chronic progressive ankylosing rheumatoid arthritis and spondylitis, but that his condition did not conform to any known specific disease. |