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Type of Object
Needles, puncturing
Place of Manufacture
New York (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture
1900-1920
Physical Details
One 3/4" metal Rosen needle in original box. Needle is fixed through a wing-shaped guard, and has a thin wire driven all the way from the proximal to the distal end. Box has a line drawing of the instrument, and reads, "One Rosen Needle 3/4 Inch H. A. Metz Laboratories, Inc. 122 Hudson Street, New York City" Small size suggests pediatric application.
Dimensions
3.5 cm. x 4 cm. x 1.3 cm.
Medical Subject
Drainage -- instrumentation; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- instrumentation; Needles
Accession Number
1983.11
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Rosen Sternal Needle, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00042.jpg