English Plaster
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
This article from the 1928–1936 Great Medical Encyclopedia describes English plaster, a silk taffeta coated with fish glue and tincture of benzoin, used for skin wounds. It also briefly defines angormia according to Kretschmer as a psychomotor drive disorder.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
ENGLISH PLASTER (Emplastrum adhaesivum anglicum, Sericum adhaesivum, Taffetas adhaesivum), silk taffeta coated on one side with a solution of fish glue and on the other with tincture of benzoin. English plaster is used for skin wounds. ANGORMIA (from the Greek a- negative particle, and hormon from hormao- I move), according to Kretschmer—disorders of drives characterized by weakness and slowing of acts, manifesting in the psychomotor sphere as akinetic pictures of poverty of movement and depending on the weakening of the action of hormones on the brain (see).
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“English Plaster.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/english-plaster/