Inside the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London you can see this surgical teaching doll. It “was used for teaching by the first British woman orthopaedic surgeon, Maud Forrester-Brown, and dates from the 1930s. It has a spinal brace and a long splint up one leg, illustrating two ways to immobilise a spine or a knee affected by tuberculosis, since there was no drug treatment for TB at the time”1.
- Photo by Adrian Thomas (October 2018)
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