A treatise on the art of cupping: in which the history of that operation is traced; the various diseases in which it is useful indicated; and the most approved method of performing it described / [Thomas Mapleson].

  • Mapleson, Thomas, Cupper, active 1813-1829.
Date:
1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the art of cupping: in which the history of that operation is traced; the various diseases in which it is useful indicated; and the most approved method of performing it described / [Thomas Mapleson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The abstraction of blood, as a means of removing disease, is, indeed, men-_ tioned in the earliest records of the science of medicine. Blood letting is divided into ge- neral and topical. ‘The former is well known to be effected by making a puncture in a vein, or more rarely in an artery, and allowing the blood to flow till the quantity of the whole mass be duly diminished. Topical or local - bleeding is performed by making slight incisions, or scarifications, hardly ex- | tending deeper than the thickness of the skin. It must have been very early discerned,. however, that the blood did not flow readily from these superfi- cial wounds, without the aid of some