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An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 21359i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000357: Greco-Roman cupping vessels and Roman bronze rectal speculum
Date: 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/4/70Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 23060i- Pictures
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A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
Dusart, Cornelis, 1660-1704.Date: 1695Reference: 23037i- Pictures
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A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
Dusart, Cornelis, 1660-1704.Reference: 45021i- Books
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A treatise on practical cupping : comprising an historical relation of the operation through ancient and modern times; with a copious and minute description of the several methods of performing it; intended for the instruction of the medical student, and of practitioners in general / By Samuel Bayfield.
Bayfield, Samuel, active 1823.Date: 1823- Books
A treatise on the art of cupping : in which the history of that operation is traced, the complaints in which it is useful indicated, and the most approved method of performing it described / by Thomas Mapleson.
Mapleson, Thomas, Cupper, active 1813-1829.Date: 1830- Digital Images
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Woman performing cupping upon another, after the bath. German wood-cut from 'Kalendar', 1483.
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A treatise on the art of cupping : in which the history of that operation is traced, the complaints in which it is useful indicated, and the most approved method of performing it described / by Thomas Mapleson, Cupper to His Majesty.
Mapleson, Thomas, Cupper, active 1813-1829.Date: 1821- Pictures
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A bathing room attendant applying the method of cupping to a male customer in an active bathing house. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
Weigel, Johann Christoph, 1661-1726.Date: 1698Reference: 23065i- Books
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A treatise on the art of cupping : in which the history of that operation is traced, the complaints in which it is useful indicated, and the most approved method of performing is described / by Thomas Mapleson, cupper to His Majesty.
Mapleson, Thomas.Date: 1830- Ephemera
Wilcox, cupper at the Royal Bagnio for twenty years, now liveth at the Turk's Head in Newgate-Street, over against Butcher-Hall-Lane, where is very good conveniences for sweating, bathing, shaving and cupping, after the best manner.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 21381i- Pictures
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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. Halftone.
Reference: 21338i- Pictures
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South Africa: a Zulu medicine man drawing a patient's blood by cupping (?). Photograph after a photograph, ca. 1907.
Date: 1907Reference: 580831i- Ephemera
John Rigg, cupper : at the Hummums in the Little Piazza Covent-Garden, with a back door from Charles-Street where gentlemen only may be always accommodated (if not full) in the best and neatest manner with lodging, sweating, bathing, or cupping.
Rigg, John, -1763.Date: [1750?]- Pictures
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- Pictures
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South Africa: a Zulu medicine man preparing to draw blood by cupping, first making an incision in the patient's shoulder. Process print after a photograph, ca. 1907.
Date: 1907Reference: 580826i- Books
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[Phlebotomiographía], or, A treatise of phlebotomy : demonstrating the necessity of it in diseases; the time for elections. And likewise of the use and application of cupping-glasses, and leeches. Whereupon is added a brief and most methodicall tract of the crisis / Written originally in French, by Da de Plumis Campi ; and now faithfully rendred into English, by E.W. well-wisher to physick and chirurgery.
Planis Campy, David de, 1589-approximately 1644.Date: 1658- Pictures
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.
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686-1755.Date: [1736]Reference: 23083i- Books
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Observations and experiments on the efficacy and modus operandi of cupping-glasses, in preventing and arresting the effects of poisoned wounds / by Caspar Wistar Pennock.
Date: 1828- Books
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Observations and experiments on the efficacy and modus operandi of cupping-glasses, in preventing and arresting the effects of poisoned wounds / by Caspar Wistar Pennock.
Pennock, C. W. (Caspar Wistar), 1799-1867.Date: 1828- Pictures
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Surgery: a cupping glass (above) and a pot on top of a fire, with a cautery (?) and a pair of bellows. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.Date: 1933Reference: 498470i- Pictures
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Central African Republic: cupping using a horn which is placed on the patient's lower back and sucked by the medical practitioner who squats over him. Photograph by Antonin Marius Vergiat, ca. 1935.
Vergiat, Antonin Marius, 1900-Date: 1935Reference: 581003i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005295: Zulu man making an incision in the shoulder of another, South Africa
Date: November 1937Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/43/26Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive