Traditional casts are heavy, immovable, and prone to wearing down the skin. Castomize’s new lightweight alternative seeks to ...

So it was that in times to come every bourgeois home in France ‘had its plaster Napoleon’, as Alain Corbin writes in this brief but highly original book. The proliferation of such casts was a feature ...

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