Specification of David Oppenheimer : surgical needle.

  • Oppenheimer, David.
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of David Oppenheimer : surgical needle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Surgical Needle, LETTERS PATENT to David Oppenheimer, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of “ An Improved Needle especially Applicable for Surgical Purposes.”—A communi¬ cation from abroad by Harry M. Jenkins, of New York, in the United States of America. Sealed the 4th June 1875, and dated the 23rd December 1874. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Oppenheimer a the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd December 1874. I, David Oppenheimer, of Watling Street, in the City of London, 5 Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Improved Needle especially Applicable for Surgical Purposes,” communi¬ cated to me from abroad by Harry M. Jenkins, of New York, in the United States of America, to be as follows :— This improved needle has its head end split to form jaws, having their 10 ends bevilled and their inner sides grooved or recessed longitudinally,