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  2. Adhesive bandage - Wikipedia

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    An adhesive bandage, also called a sticking plaster, sticky plaster, medical plaster, or simply plaster in British English, is a small medical dressing used for injuries not serious enough to require a full-size bandage.

  3. Plaster - Wikipedia

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    Stucco plaster reliefs, such as this work at the Château de Fontainebleau, were hugely influential in Northern Mannerism. A plaster low-relief decorative frieze is above it. Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. [1]

  4. Plasterwork - Wikipedia

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    The earliest plasters known to us were lime-based. Around 7500 BC, the people of 'Ain Ghazal in Jordan used lime mixed with unheated crushed limestone to make plaster which was used on a large scale for covering walls, floors, and hearths in their houses.

  5. Band-Aid - Wikipedia

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    A close-up of an open Band-Aid. Band-Aid is a brand of adhesive bandages distributed by the consumer health company Kenvue, spun off from Johnson & Johnson in 2023. [3] Invented in 1920, the brand has become a generic term for adhesive bandages in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and others.

  6. Orthopedic cast - Wikipedia

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    The first commercial bandages were not produced until 1931 in Germany, and were called Cellona. Before that the bandages were made by hand at the hospitals. As a plaster cast is applied, it expands by approximately 0.5%. The less water used, the more linear expansion occurs.

  7. 50 Facts You May Not Know About US Involvement in War

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    Blood banks were invented because of WWI. ... That's three years' worth of plaster statues. Next, let's take a look at the Vietnam War: ratpack223/istockphoto. 34. It's got a lot of names.

  8. History of wound care - Wikipedia

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    Another peoples to take advantage of the cleansing properties of alcohol were the Greeks. They used wine along with boiled water and vinegar to cleanse wounds. The Greeks, specifically Hippocrates (430–377 BC), were also the first to establish the four cardinal signs of inflammation: redness, swelling, heat and pain. [16]

  9. Timeline of plastic development - Wikipedia

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    Expanded polystyrene, used for building insulation, packaging, and cup, was invented by Dow Chemical. [1] 1957: Italian firm Montecatini begin large-scale commercial production of isotactic polypropylene. 1960s: High-density polyethylene bottles introduced and soon replace glass bottles in most applications [11] 1965