Toulouse-Lautrec syndrome. I had never seen a case before, but I had heard it described. Named for its most famous sufferer {who did not yet exist, I reminded myself}, it was a degenerative disease of bone and connective tissue. Victims often appeared normal, if sickly, until their early teens, when the long bones of the legs, under the stress of bearing a body upright, began to crumble and collapse upon themselves.
( Diana Gabaldon )
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