Specification of Celse Eugène Capron : cupping apparatus.

  • Capron, Celse Eugène.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Celse Eugène Capron : cupping apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Caprons Improved Cupping Apparatus. employed also for withdrawing the milk from the breast, and can be used as an artificial leech in the form represented in Figure 7. Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus; Figures 2 and 3 are valves; Figure 4 is a modification of the apparatus; Figures 5 and 6 shew the form 5 of the valves employed ; and Figure 7 is used as a substitute for the leech. A, Figure 1, is a strong vulcanised india-rubber ball, firmly cemented or otherwise secured to the brass caps or fittings B, B1. In these caps are screwed the valves C, C1, shewn full size in Figures 2 and 3, each opening upwards, allowing the air to pass through a small hole made in them. At the lower 10 part of the brass cap B1 is fitted a stop-cock D, for regulating the partial vacuum in the cup F, composed of glass or other suitable material, cemented to the brass cap G. This cap is also furnished with a valve of the same con¬ struction as before described. Figure 4 is a modification of the apparatus. J t consists of a vulcanised 15 india-rubber ball A, fitted to the brass cap B1, as in the former case. The exhaust valves C, instead of being placed at top and bottom, are both fixed to the lower cap B1. The stop-cock and cup are of the same construction as those of Figure 1. The air exhausted from the cup F passes through the small holes in the top of the valves C, represented by dotted lines in Figures 5 and 6, and 20 in Figure 1 out of the small hole H in the top of the cover I. J, Figure 7, represents a glass tube secured to a brass cap K, provided with a stop-cock L. The conical tube M is fitted in the brass cap B1 of the india-rubber ball. This form of the apparatus is used in the same manner as those before described, and is employed as a substitute for the leech. 25 When the above apparatus are required to be used for drawing blood, the cup or tube is placed firmly over the part to be operated upon, incisions in the flesh having been previously made. The stop-cock D is opened, and by com¬ pressing the india-rubber ball A, the air contained in it is forced out through the valve C and the hole H, Figures 1 and 4. The ball in expanding by its 30 elasticity withdraws the air from the cup F or tube J, thus forming a partial vacuum. This operation being repeated until the requisite pressure on the part is obtained, the stop-cock D is closed. When a sufficient quantity of blood has been cupped the apparatus is removed, by lifting the cup so as to allow the air to enter. The employment of the above improved apparatus renders the 35 operation of cupping simple, more expeditious, and effective. Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein laid down ; but what I claim is, the