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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.
In the 1970s Elastoplast marketed its Airstrip product as "the fresh air plaster". The plasters were sold in small flat tin. [4] On 4 July 2005 Elastoplast launched a £1.1 million advertising campaign which introduced brand heroes called "the Plastermen", which had helped advertise the newly launched SilverHealing plasters. [5]
The Greeks also acknowledged the importance of wound closure, and were the first to differentiate between acute and chronic wounds, calling them "fresh" and "non-healing", respectively. Galen of Pergamum, a Greek surgeon who served Roman gladiators circa 120–201 A.D., made many contributions to the field of wound care. [9]
I know that personally I have heard bandages called all manner of things but never a sticking plaster...--68.226.22.197 05:38, 25 August 2006 (UTC) Usually in the us at least they are called "plasters", but "sticking plaster" helps differentiate from things like plaster of paris.he big help.
The Puritans, almost immediately after arriving in America in 1630, set up schools. Children who did not attend school were taught at home. As a result, Americans were the most literate people in the world. As John Adams put it, a native-born American "who cannot read and write is as rare ... as a comet or an earthquake."
One of the few exceptions is in North America, where despite the passing of the First Geneva convention in 1864, and its ratification in the United States in 1881, Johnson & Johnson has used the red cross as a mark on its products since 1887 and registered the symbol as a U.S. trademark for medicinal and surgical plasters in 1905. [4]
In June 1845, President James K. Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to Texas, and by October, 3,500 Americans were on the Nueces River, prepared to defend Texas from a Mexican invasion. On November 10, 1845, [ 125 ] Polk ordered General Taylor and his forces south to the Rio Grande, into disputed territory that Mexicans claimed as their own.
The Texas Legislature expanded the medical school charter in 1979, creating the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. TTUHSC, which is now part of the Texas Tech University System, includes Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. It has locations in four Texas ...