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
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Kings College London. The original may be consulted at Kings College London.

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    He was in attendance upon a gentle- man in the country who had been seized with apoplexy, when the physician sum- moned to meet him in consultation di- rected twenty ounces of blood to be drawn from the back of the neck by cupping. He was sensible that his success in this operation must depend upon chance ra- ther than ability, as he had, like many others, neglected to qualify himself in it. He would gladly have dispensed with the operating duty; but no alternative was left him. The patient’s family and friends were so anxiously interested in his reco- very, that they would, in consideration for no one, have allowed an omission of any means that offered a chance of be- nefit. As a surgeon, to have acknow-