Bone-menders

A bone-mender is the term for peculiars gifted with healing peculiarities. As such, they may be considered the doctors of the peculiar world.

Overview

“	...their life-preserving talents are always paired with an aptitude for the mortal arts. Their medicines are derived and distilled from the dead, and half their gift is in transmuting the hearts and humours of the deceased into miraculous elixirs. In the midst of life we are in death, et cetera.	”
–Miss Peregrine, Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders

In Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders, their abilities are categorized as necrological. Bone-mending is an extremely rare talent, and if it were more common the Ymbryne Council would mandate that every loop in peculiardom include a bone-mender.

Although not a perfect replacement for a trained medical doctor, they specialize in peculiar maladies and injuries, such as fever caused by an infected hollowgast bite, the sudden, spontaneous growth of additional heads, and peculiar diseases. Dust people, whose skin and bones can be ground into healing powders, are the rarest manifestation of the bone-mending talent. Their dust is miraculously effective on the wounds of others, but it has no effect on the donor.

In previous centuries, they could hide themselves and their peculiarity among normals by posing as quacks, though they had to be careful not to arouse suspicion. To avoid being labeled sorcerers for healing people too miraculously, they would devise worthless "patent" medicines to credit for the speedy recovery from an injury or illness.

Known bone-menders

• Dr. Perry
• George
• George Puddle
• Lionel Partridge
• Mother Dust
• Rafael
• Thomas Botts
• W. H. Schmidt
• Renowned bone-mender from the loop of Copenhagen, Denmark, December 15, 1920

Self-healers

• Don Fernando
• Farmer Hayworth
• Sam
• Swampmuck villagers

Gallery

W. H. Schmidt's calling card

Worthless patent cure

George Puddle's handbill

George