Winter 2007–2008
Postcard / Bone-Setting Mannequin
Correcting childhood deviance
![The front of this issue's postcard featuring a photograph of a mannequin used to demonstrate bone-setting.](/issues/28/cabinet_028_postcard_1.jpg)
![The back of this issue's postcard with the caption: This mannequin was used for demonstrating bone-setting. It may have been invented by Hieronymous Fabricius (fifteen thirty seven sixteen nineteen), Italy's foremost surgeon in the late sixteenth century, who devised operations for tying arteries and correcting spinal deformities.](/issues/28/cabinet_028_postcard_2.jpg)
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