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He held up a distorted piece of spine and pelvis, and declared he had a plaster so curative—fifty centimes, ten sous—that it would restraighten the most curved back.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)