14 S. HOLTH. 
M.-N. Kl. 
that both facilitated the winding of the yarn. The netting needles 
used by our fishermen when making or mending their nets themselves are 
of the same principle: a double wooden fork, only the prongs join only in 
the end, which is to.go first through the meshes. Besides Dr. Med. F. G. 
Gade told my after my demonstration of old and modern fishing net 
needles, that the old instrument exists this very day in the form of the 
»filet needle« for the French net-work embroidery; in figure 2 this instru- 
ment is seen working. 
Fig. 2. 
Net-work embroidery with the >filet needle«, on which the thread is wound. 
In fig. 3 the two Roman fishing net needles are seen with the yarn 
wound. 
] am sure that the surgeon in Ascalon found the netting needles 
very convenient for keeping neatly arranged surgical suture thread. 
; Bp" 
The netting needles Pl II, 7 and 8 on a reduced scale with the thread wound. 
The instrument of the Mediterrean countries followed the Romans to Gaul 
and Britain where the surgeons were of the same opinion as their colleague 
in Palestine. 
