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  • Cupping glasses.
  • Therapeutics: Cupping vessel.
  • Cupping Operation performed a woman
  • Plate 28. Cupping devices for the arm and leg.
  • Cupping, using a horn placed on the patient's back, Africa. Photograph by J. Uribe, 1920/1940.
  • Kaffir medicine man cupping a patient
  • Chinese woodcut: Medical instrument -- cupping vessel
  • Woodcut showing cupping of patient's back, 1483
  • Indian cupping horns of horn and copper
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
  • African witch doctor cupping a patient, Wide World photograph
  • Sudan: barbering, tooth-drawing and cupping being practised. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Sudan: barbering, tooth-drawing and cupping being practised. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia. Patient with several cupping horns applied to body.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a patient. Etching by A. Brambilla.
  • Woman performing cupping upon another, after the bath. German wood-cut from 'Kalendar', 1483.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia. Where ancient method of cupping using cow horns is practised.
  • South Africa: a Zulu medicine man drawing a patient's blood by cupping (?). Photograph after a photograph, ca. 1907.
  • A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A bathing room attendant applying the method of cupping to a male customer in an active bathing house. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.