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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.
A mustard plaster, also known as a blister, is a poultice of mustard seed powder spread inside a protective dressing and applied to the body to stimulate healing. It can be used to warm muscle tissues and for chronic aches and pains. [ 1 ]
Plaster is widely used as a support for broken bones; a bandage impregnated with plaster is moistened and then wrapped around the damaged limb, setting into a close-fitting yet easily removed tube, known as an orthopedic cast. Plaster is also used in preparation for radiotherapy when fabricating individualized immobilization shells for patients ...
Vintage pharmacy jar for Diachylon ointment. Diachylon (from Latin diachȳlōn, representing Greek διὰ χυλῶν, "[a medicament] composed of juices"), [1] [2] [3] also rendered diachylum or diaculum, was originally a kind of medicament made of the juices of several plants (thus its name), but now commonly the name for lead-plaster, emplastrum plumbi—a plaster made of lead oxide boiled ...
Rivastigmine, an Alzheimer's treatment medication, was released in patch form in 2007 under the brand name Exelon. [14] In December 2019, Robert S. Langer and his team developed and patented a technique whereby transdermal patches could be used to label people with invisible ink in order to store medical information subcutaneously. This was ...
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.
Articles relating to plasterwork, construction or ornamentation done with plaster, such as a layer of plaster on an interior or exterior wall structure, or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls.
First-line therapy (sometimes referred to as induction therapy, primary therapy, or front-line therapy) [6] is the first therapy that will be tried. Its priority over other options is usually either: (1) formally recommended on the basis of clinical trial evidence for its best-available combination of efficacy, safety, and tolerability or (2 ...