Talk:Harry Raymond Eastlack

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Vital statistics
Vital statistics on Harry Raymond Eastlack are hard to find on the Web. There are for-pay articles available from sources such as Springerlink, and Google search results show snippets of text from such sources, sufficient to establish that his full name was Harry Raymond Eastlack, Jr., that he was born and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and that he was born and died in the month of November. I haven't been able to find actual dates of birth and death.&mdash;QuicksilverT @ 18:18, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

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This is Harry Eastlack. Is it not? This Mutter Museum photograph already displayed in the Main Article on FOP (his disease) seems very likely to be he. I believe this is he, but I would like to confirm with fellow Editors first. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 08:30, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Considering the rarity of the disease, patients willing to donate the body to science must be very rare: it is unlikely to me that The Mutter Museum has more than one FOP skeleton, and this source claims that Eastlack's one is "only fully articulated FOP skeleton in the world". Finally, the pattern of heterotopic bones on the skeleton and its pose, when compared with existing pictures of Eastlack's one on the web, are apparently the same. I believe that the picture shows the skeleton of the unfortunate Harry Eastlack without a doubt. Khruner (talk) 10:45, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 05:02, 7 November 2016 (UTC)