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  2. Antonius Mathijsen - Wikipedia

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    While working in Haarlem at the military hospital in 1851, Mathijsen first used plaster of Paris as a bandage. [1] Until then a Belgian method was used with starch that took up to a day to dry and harden. [1] Across the street he watched workers repairing cracks in the church with strips of jute dunked in plaster of Paris.

  3. Orthopedic cast - Wikipedia

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    Adapting the use of plaster of Paris for use in hospitals, however, took some time. In 1828, doctors in Berlin were treating leg fractures by aligning the bones in a long narrow box, which they filled with moist sand. Substitution of plaster of Paris for the sand was the next logical step.

  4. Total contact casting - Wikipedia

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    However, plaster of Paris casts take too long to fully dry and limits patient mobility for up to 74 hours — if the patient walks on the cast during this time, the shape will change, and the cast will not protect the foot and wound correctly. [10] Fiberglass casts were introduced in the 1980s or 1990s.

  5. Plaster cast - Wikipedia

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    Plaster cast bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon based on a life mask cast in 1786.. A plaster cast is a copy made in plaster of another 3-dimensional form. The original from which the cast is taken may be a sculpture, building, a face, a pregnant belly, a fossil or other remains such as fresh or fossilised footprints – particularly in palaeontology (a track of dinosaur ...

  6. Plaster mold casting - Wikipedia

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    The plaster is not pure plaster of Paris, but rather has additives to improve green strength, dry strength, permeability, and castability.For instance, talc or magnesium oxide are added to prevent cracking and reduce setting time; lime and cement limit expansion during baking; glass fibers increase strength; sand can be used as a filler. [1]

  7. L'Inconnue de la Seine - Wikipedia

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    A male pathologist was said to have recorded the face of an unidentified young woman who, around the age of sixteen, according to his story, had been found drowned in the River Seine at Paris, around the late 1880s. The pathologist at the Paris Morgue was so taken by her beauty that he worked for hours to make a plaster cast of her face.

  8. Anne Acheson - Wikipedia

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    Anne Crawford Acheson CBE FRBC [1] (5 August 1882 – 13 March 1962) was a British-Irish sculptor. She and Elinor Hallé invented plaster casts for soldier's broken limbs. . Acheson exhibited at the Royal Academy and internat

  9. UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58 - Wikipedia

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    UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58 is a sculpture by Henry Moore.It was made in a series of scales, from a small plaster maquette, through a half-size working model made in plaster and cast in bronze (LH 415), to a full-size version carved in Roman travertine marble in 1957–1958 (LH 416). [1]