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- He used gypsum powder between layers of unbleached cotton and linen bandages to produce a thick plaster bandage that, when soaked in water, could be easily applied at once.
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org › article › S0025-6196(17)30230-6Antonius Mathijsen and Plaster Casts - Mayo Clinic Proceedings
In 1852, a most effective innovation was dramatically introduced into the age-old regimen of fracture therapy, a method which was destined to influence the practice of orthopaedics in many directions. In that year, Antonius Mathijsen (1803-1878), a Belgian Army Surgeon of Brabant, introduced the effective use of plaster-of-Paris bandages.
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Apr 17, 2017 · The Dutch military surgeon Anthonius Mathijsen while working at the military hospital in Haarlem discovered that bandages soaked in water and plaster of Paris were becoming hard within minutes providing sufficient casting for injured limbs.
- B Szostakowski, P Smitham, Wasim Sardar Khan
- 2017
Mathijsen wrote a monograph on his new technique and published it in a Dutch medical journal. This new technique of plaster of Paris application was first extensively used for fractured limbs during the Crimean War (1853-1856) with good results.
- Ahmadreza Afshar, David P. Steensma, Robert A. Kyle
- 2017
Apr 8, 2016 · Mathijsen wrote a monograph on a new method of application of the plaster in fracture, which was published in May 1852 . In the introduction to this volume he stated that he had tried, above all, to find a good method of dressing the wounded on the battlefield.
- Philippe Hernigou
- philippe.hernigou@wanadoo.fr
- 2016
May 1, 2007 · @article{Mathijsen2007THECN, title={THE CLASSIC: New Method for Application of Plaster-of-Paris Bandage*}, author={Antonius Mathijsen}, journal={Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research}, year={2007}, volume={458}, pages={59-62}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:22025757} }
Jun 1, 2007 · The Dutch military surgeon Anthonius Mathijsen while working at the military hospital in Haarlem discovered that bandages soaked in water and plaster of Paris were becoming hard within minutes...
Apr 17, 2017 · In his paper entitled “ New Method for Application of Plaster-of-Paris Bandage ”, Mathijsen highlighted many disadvantages of Seutin’s dressings including lack of self-adjustment to the ...
