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The Plaster Cast: Gypsum That Sets Round a Broken Limb
A broken bone heals only if its ends are held still in line for weeks. Splints of wood and bandages stiffened with starch or egg white took hours or days to harden. Antonius Mathijsen, a Dutch army surgeon at the military hospital in Haarlem, rubbed plaster of Paris into coarse cotton bandages in 1851: soaked in water and wrapped round the limb, they could be moulded to it and set hard within minutes. He published the method in February 1852, and armies adopted it because it could be applied on the battlefield.
The chemistry is simple: the hemihydrate takes up water and crystallises as gypsum. But the reaction gives off heat, and the water the mix needs to be workable is far more than the reaction uses.
This rung works out the heat and the water, models a setting cast's temperature, and makes a cast round a bottle, measuring its temperature as it sets.
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Hydration chemistry, water ratio and heat
Hydration chemistry, water ratio and heat
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The older plaster it follows
The older plaster it follows
Lime plaster sets by taking up carbon dioxide over days; gypsum plaster sets by taking up water in minutes. The embedded blueprint makes the older one.
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Measure the heat of setting
Measure the heat of setting
Weigh 100 g of plaster of Paris into a paper cup and 60 g of water at room temperature into another. Stir the plaster into the water, push a thermocouple probe into the middle, and read the temperature every minute for 40 minutes.
Repeat with a thin disc — 100 g spread 5 mm thick on a plastic sheet with the probe under it — and with a deep cup of 300 g. Plot the three curves: the thick lump gets far hotter than the thin disc, as the notebook's model shows. Never repeat the deep test with warm water near skin.
此步骤所需材料：
熟石膏1 kilogram
杯子3 个
水1 升所需工具：
数字厨房秤
带读数的热电偶
秒表
皮革工作手套
透明安全眼镜4
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Wrap a cast round a bottle
Wrap a cast round a bottle
Use a plastic bottle as the limb. Smear it with petroleum jelly so the cast releases, and wrap one layer of cotton gauze as padding.
Cut plaster bandage into lengths. Dip each in cool water for a few seconds until the bubbles stop, squeeze it gently, and wrap it round with each turn overlapping the last by half, smoothing it with a wet palm so the layers bond. Build four to six layers, thicker where a real cast takes the load. Mould it with flat palms, never fingertips, which leave dents that press on skin.
It is firm in minutes and sets fully over hours as it dries. Next day, cut it off with a saw down one side and weigh it wet and dry.
此步骤所需材料：
制作面具用石膏绷带卷1 个
棉纱布1 个
凡士林1 个
PET 瓶（碳酸饮料）1 个水2 升所需工具：
水桶皮革工作手套数字厨房秤
钢锯5
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A cast that is not right
A cast that is not right
Warning signs with a plaster cast. On a real patient, any of them means seeing a clinician.
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History and honest limits
History and honest limits
**Antonius Mathijsen** (1805–1878) first used plaster of Paris bandages in 1851 at the military hospital in Haarlem, and published the method in the Dutch journal *Repertorium* in February 1852; he took out no patent. Fibreglass and resin casts now often replace plaster because they are lighter and tolerate water, but plaster is still used where it must be moulded closely.
**Honest limits.** The temperature model is a simple lumped estimate, not a clinical figure. Applying a cast to a person is a clinical skill: this rung casts a bottle. The enthalpy figures are standard tabulated values; real plasters differ slightly by type.
材料
7- 1 kilogram占位符
- 3 个占位符
- 3 升占位符
- 1 个占位符
- 1 个占位符
- 1 个占位符
- 1 个占位符
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