Abstract
The use of fine milliner's needles and silk, as advocated by Kocher, Halsted and Cushing, entails the threading of numerous needles. This task is tedious, time consuming and often difficult, especially when medium, heavy and braided silks are used. The method described here is presented because of its simplicity. A piece of wire is selected according to the size of needle and thread to be used. The accompanying table gives the best corresponding sizes of wire, needles, and suturing materials. The ends of a piece of wire approximately 3 cm. long are grasped in a needle holder to form a loop. A fine silk suture is passed through the loop and pulled tight to shape the end of the wire so that it will readily pass through the eye of a needle. As many as twelve needles can be threaded onto this doubled wire. The suture material is passed through
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