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Sarah Mapp (nee Wallin) (1706–1737) was a bone setter.
Biography
=Early life=
The daughter of John and Jenny Wallin, Mapp was baptised Sarah Wallin on 26 Mark 1706, at Hinton, Chicklade. She a younger brother, Richard, and a sister{{who}}.{{Cite ODNB | last = Corley | first = T. A. B. | title = Mapp , Sarah (bap. 1706, d. 1737) | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56037 | date = September 2004 | accessdate = 2009-11-02 | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/56037 }}
Mapp presumably learned her trade from her father, an 18th century bonesetter.[http://www.chirobase.org/05RB/BCC/01.html Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism by Samuel Homola] (1963)
She was the sister of Lavinia Fenton, who played Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera in 1728 and later married Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton.
The town of Epsom offered Mapp 100 guineas yearly to reside there and set bones in 1736.Haggard HW. Devils, Drugs, and Doctors. Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1929. She saw patients twice a week at the Grecian Coffee House. Supposedly, she cured the spinal deformity of Sir Hans Sloane's niece.{{cite book | last = Lock | first = Stephen | title = The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire | year = 2001 | isbn = 0192629506 | page = pg208 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=TKIzxSZ_-UwC&dq=Sally+Mapp&pg=PA208 }}
Mapp was once mistaken for one of George II's mistresses by an angry mob.{{cite book | last = Gordon | first = Richard | title = The Alarming History of Medicine | publisher = St. Martin's Press | location = New York | year = 1994 | isbn = 0312104111 | page = pg192}} She married an abusive footman, who absconded with her money.
She died in Seven Dials.
A song about Mapp appears in the play at Lincoln's Inn Fields, The Husband's Relief.
Her portrait appears at the top of William Hogarth's The Company of Undertakers (Consultation of Quacks) (1736).
George Cruikshank's portrait Sarah "Crazy Sally" Mapp Bone Setter [http://www.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_583542/SARAH-CRAZY-SALLY-MAPP.html] is similar.
References
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- {{Citation |author=FITZWILLIAMS DC |title=Mrs. Mapp, or crazy Sally Mapp |journal=Med World |volume=74 |issue=16 |pages=463–6 |year=1951 |date=June 1951 |pmid=14852318 |doi= |url=}}