A treatise on the art of cupping.

  • Mapleson, Thomas.
Date:
1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the art of cupping. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    species of suction. The most natural, and probably the earliest, means, of effecting this purpose, would be, by the application of the lips, probably sug- gested by the custom of sucking the poi- son out of wounds. The utility of some intermediate vacuity must have been discovered at a very early period, as Hippocrates takes notice of two kinds of instruments for the purpose of eli- citing blood after the operation of sca- rifying. The first a small gourd, or cucurbit, furnished with two orifices, one of a sufficient size to include the scarifications, the other small; by ap- plying the mouth to the latter, the air was sucked out, and a partial vacuum formed; it was then'closed by means of