The Wooden Chair

The Conservation of a Wooden

This paper describes the treatment and conservation of an Egyptian wooden coffin box dating back to ca. 1st century. The treatment procedures entailed cleaning, removal of dust and sand, securing severely damaged wooden fragments and damaged resin as well as the use of a suitable gap filler. Studies included wood and microbiological identification. TECHNICAL PAPER 1. Conservation Dept. Faculty ...

Wooden foreign bodies in the hand.

Despite the technical advances in radiological imaging modalities that have occurred in recent years in detecting foreign bodies like wood and plastics, they are not very often relied upon. Five of the six cases reported below seen over a period of 6 months, had a delayed presentation and ultrasound was found to be very useful in detecting and planning the treatment. The author strongly recomme...

The Swinging Chair Test

Intraorbital Wooden Foreign Body

DESCRIPTION A 39-year-old man presented with a 5-day history of increasing left eye swelling and erythema, after a palm tree branch struck his face.

From the BCVS Chair.

A Proud History In July 2019, the American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science (BCVS) will celebrate its 20th anniversary. For this first News and Views: From the BCVS Chair for Circulation Research, I thought it would be most appropriate to provide a brief history and mission statement of the AHA BCVS Council. In 1924, 6 leading cardiologists across the nation—Drs L...