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India Rubber Man

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India Rubber Man
A fanciful term referring to the hyperlaxity of joints and hyperextensible, fragile and bruisable skin accompanied by cutaneous and vascular friability typical of patients with Ehlers-Danlos disease
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The terms refer to their original meanings, when a freak was the India Rubber Man, who could contort himself into unnatural positions, and a geek bit the heads off chickens.
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The Blues were renowned for having decent ones: Dan Tremelling, nicknamed the India Rubber Man, Harry Hibbs and Merrick to name but a few, who were household names to my generation or any follower of Blues' history.
Safe hands at Blues recalled; Your Shout by Birmingham Mail (England)
I remember particularly the performance of Nat Jackley, The India Rubber Man.
Letter: True panto gentleman by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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