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Metal needles wrapped together in brown paper. One needle point protruding. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Needles wrapped in brown paper

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910

Leather waller containing 10 straight needles and 4 curved needles from `Tabloid' medicine chest used by Walter Wellman for Transatlantic balloon flight, 1910, made by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., 1900-1910

Leather wallet with needles from 'Tabloid' medicine chest used for a transatlantic balloon flight in 1910

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910

Needle, steel

Surgery

Bone needle, possibly amuletic, reputedly Eskimo,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Needle, steel, with interior compartment, by Colli

Surgery

1860-1880

Steel needle with faceted point, European, 1801-19

Surgery

1801-1930

Naevus needle

Surgery

Cleft palate needle

Surgery

Sterile needle, cased, in box, by Burroughs, Wellc

Surgery

1901-1914

Selection of Hagedorn's needles in vulcanite case, by Weiss, London, 1917

Hagedorn's needles in case

Surgery

1917

5 needles, steel, in paper wrapper

Surgery

6 Surgeon's needles, in packet, supplied by Mayer

Surgery

13 tattooing needles, steel, Zambia, 1880-1935

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1935

Needles (x2), bleeding, hypodermic, part of blood transfusion apparatus originally thought to be designed by Geoffrey Keynes, but believed to be designed by Oswald Hope Robertsonduring the 1st World War and made by the General Surgical Co. Ltd., 1914-1918

Hypodermic needles

Therapeutics

4 needles with triangular points, affixed to cardb

Surgery

1920-1930

Naevus needle

Surgery

Needle, Doyen's nickel plated steel, by Weiss, London, 1917

Surgical needle

Surgery

1917

Needle, steel, by Collin of Paris, from Charriere,

Surgery

1865-1875

Needle, Cooper, steel, chromium plated, with ivory

Surgery

1830-1860

COpy of steel needle, original described by Pare,

Surgery

1901-1935

Needle used by Thelwall Thomas in hernia operation

Surgery

7 (of 8) interchangeable needles, in lignum vitae

Surgery

1830-1890

Large needle, straight, eyed, pointed at both ends

Veterinary Medicine

1901-1940

Needle, sheath only, tortoiseshell, 19th century

Surgery

1801-1900

Needle, steel

Surgery

Bone needle with small eye in head, straight body

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Seton needle, [bradawe] like surgical instrument,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

4 bleeding hypodermic needles, part of blood transfusion apparatus originally thought to be designed by Geoffrey Keynes, but believed to be designed by Oswald Hope Robertsonduring the 1st World War and made by the General Surgical Co. Ltd., 1914-1918

Hypodermic needles

Therapeutics

Forceps for holding needles, steel and brass, ebon

Surgery

1860-1880

Grooved gold-plated needle in incomplete ivory cas

Surgery

1850-1910

Grooved needle with incomplete ivory case, Europea

Surgery

1801-1900

Cleft palate needle

Surgery

Aneurism needle

Surgery

Needle, steel, chrome plated, by Blease Equipment

Surgery

1920-1950

Needle, steel, with inner compartment and small bl

Surgery

1860-1880

Needle, steel

Surgery

Steel needle with flattened point, European, 1801-

Surgery

1801-1930

Two aneurism needles

Surgery

12 Ward Cousins needles with metal threads, by Weiss, London, 1917

Surgical needles with metal thread

Surgery

1917

6 Hambert's needles, in vulcanite case, by Weiss, London, 1917

Surgical needles in case

Surgery

1917

Needle, Reverdin, steel and ebony, by Collin of Pa

Surgery

1850-1880

Needle, steel and ivory, probably French, from Cha

Surgery

1830-1860

Copy of steel needle, original described by Pare,

Surgery

1901-1935

4 needles, steel, in case, 1880-1920

Surgery

1880-1920

Ivory needle with eye at top, slightly curved towa

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1925

Sterile transfusion needle in sealed container

Public Health & Hygiene

Hone, part of blood transfusion apparatus originally thought to be designed by Geoffrey Keynes, but believed to be designed by Oswald Hope Robertsonduring the 1st World War and made by the General Surgical Co. Ltd., 1914-1918

Hone, part of blood transfusion apparatus

Therapeutics

Packet of 12 Hagedorn needles, straight and curved, by Mayer and Meltzer, London, 1905

Straight and curved surgical needles

Surgery

Set of 3 grooved needles with ivory handle in leat

Surgery

1850-1910

2 grooved steel needles in bone case, European, 18

Surgery

1801-1900