Doll with orthopaedic leg and spine braces

This doll, with a long splint leg brace and spinal brace, was used for teaching purposes in the 1930s. There was no drug treatment for TB then so children's bones had to be supported like this. It was used by the first British woman orthopaedic surgeon, Maud Forrester-Brown. It is located in an exhibition at the head offices of the trade union Unison in London, which is on the site of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital -- the first woman to ever become a doctor in 1865.