Use of Plaster Moulds as a Basis for Models in Gynæcology and Obstetrics

Geometrical Optimization of the Cast Iron Bullion Moulds Based on Fracture Mechanics

In this paper, the causes of the crack initiation in cast iron bullion moulds in Meybod Steel Corporation are investigated and then some new geometrical models are presented to replace the current moulds. Finally, among the new presented models and according to the life assessment, the best model is selected and suggested as the replaced one. For this purpose, the three recommended moulds were ...

A Study of Geometric Ornaments of Plaster Mihrabs Made between 12th and the mid-14th Centuries in Iran

The geometric ornaments are considered as a kind of decorating that has been used mostly in the Islamic art, alone and sometimes in conjunction with other motifs or inscriptions. The plaster altars made between 12th and the mid-14th centuries towards the Seljuk and Ilkhanid dynasties, are also considered as the works that have been decorated using various plant decorations and inscriptions, as ...

The Use of the Stereoscope in the Teaching of Obstetrics and Gynæcology

Prospective study and new concepts based on scoliosis detorsion of the first 225 early in-brace radiological results with the new Lyon brace: ARTbrace

BACKGROUND The symmetrical Lyon brace is a brace, usually used to maintain correction after a plaster cast reduction in the Cotrel's EDF (Elongation-Derotation-Flexion) frame. The new Lyon brace or ARTbrace is an immediate corrective brace based on some of the principles of the plaster cast which are improved due to advances in CAD/CAM technology. The aim of this paper is to describe concepts o...

The Thermometer in Obstetrics and Gynæcology

This pamphlet consists of two lectures delivered at the Midwives' Institute. They must have been uncommonly dreary for the listeners, for they contain little else than the enumeration of various readings of the thermometer after childbirth and after the graver gynsecological operations. The thermometer is of course an indispensable aid in diagnosis, but it is easily possible to overrate its val...