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Artifact Name	Rosen Sternal Needle
Type of Object	Needles, puncturing
Manufacturer	H. A. Metz Laboratories, Inc.
Place of Manufacture	New York (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture	1900-1920
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	3.5 cm. x 4 cm. x 1.3 cm.
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.
Medical Subject	Drainage -- instrumentation; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- instrumentation; Needles
Accession Number	1983.11
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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