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Cupping

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Images

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

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

    | Date: 1835
  • view 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.
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    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.

    Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546 | Date: [1542?] | Reference: 23028i
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    The Sudan: treatment of pneumonia by cupping with a horn. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.

    Archibald, R. G. (Robert George), Sir, 1880-1953. | Date: 1911 | Reference: 494846i
    Part of: Archibald, Robert George, Sir, 1880-1953.
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    De cvcvrbitula libellus.

    | Date: 1541
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    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].

    Arquati, Giovanni Francesco, active 1608-1626. | Date: 1618
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