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Painted yellow metal container with 2 sections, containing 2 packets of hypodermic needles with mounts, for military use, German, 1914-1918
This yellow tin container suggests that these needles were once component parts of a large military medicine chest. Inside the container are two cardboard packets of steel hypodermic needles. When attached to syringes, they could have been used for a range of treatments, such as to administer anaesthetics, blood transfusions or saline injections. Made for the German Army, the needles were used during the First World War.
Details
- Category:
- Therapeutics
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A654411
- Materials:
- tin, needles, steel and wrapping, cardboard
- Measurements:
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overall: 95 mm x 72 mm x 72 mm, .17kg
- type:
- hypodermic needle
