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A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.

Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia. Patient with several cupping horns applied to body.

An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.

A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.

A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.

Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.

A few practical observations on the art of cupping / by Joseph Staples.

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.

The Sudan: treatment of pneumonia by cupping with a horn. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.

De cvcvrbitula libellus.

Medicus reformatus, ob varias in medicina [katachrēseis] seu abusus. Quem è tenebris veluti in gurgustio habitantem eripuit, ac in lucem apertam eduxit, & à summa rerum ignoratione liberavit ... / [Giovanni Francesco Arquati].

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A few practical observations on the art of cupping / by Joseph Staples.

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.

The Sudan: treatment of pneumonia by cupping with a horn. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.

De cvcvrbitula libellus.

Medicus reformatus, ob varias in medicina [katachrēseis] seu abusus. Quem è tenebris veluti in gurgustio habitantem eripuit, ac in lucem apertam eduxit, & à summa rerum ignoratione liberavit ... / [Giovanni Francesco Arquati].