found: Work cat.: Patient in Minerva Jacket, 1962, via the Ward Morgan photographs digital collection, viewed Aug. 22, 2007(Demonstration of "Minerva Jacket" cast and Stryker frame)
found: OMD, viewed Aug. 22, 2007(Minerva jacket: a plaster of Paris body cast incorporating the head and trunk, usually for fracture of the cervical spine)
found: Google search, Aug. 22, 2007 from the Navy Art Collection; Navy Medical Art of the Abbott Collection(Hirsch, Joseph. Minerva jacket [painting] oil on canvas, circa 1943; Hirsch, Joseph. Minerva jacket (Neck cast) [painting], pen and ink wash circa 1943)
found: Journal of Prosthetics & Orthotics, 2005, via WWW, viewed Aug.22, 2007:vol. 17, Num. 2, pp. 40-46 (The Minerva jacket fell out of favor in 1959 in the United States with the introduction of the halo jacket as a lighter weight alternative for three-directional positioning control and easier postoperative immobilization secondary to poliomyelitis. Nevertheless, the Minerva jacket continues to be used in the United Kingdom as an alternative to halo pin jacket external immobilization of the cervical spine, particularly at levels below C-2)
found: Hoppenfield, S. Orthopaedic dict., c1994(Minerva jacket: a body cast to support fractures of the cervical or upper thoracic vertebrae)
found: PubMed Web site, Jan 10, 2008:abstract of article from Pediatric neurosurgery, 1990-1991 (thermoplastic Minerva jackets) abstract of article from J. of spinal disorders & techniques, 2006 (Minerva cast)
