An essay on cupping ... / by Charles Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, Charles
Date:
1826
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Credit: An essay on cupping ... / by Charles Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that article being much lighter in itself, and from its allowing the practitioner to observe the progress of the operation. The shape of the glass has been altered from time to time, and even now we have them of various constructions. In order to rarefy the air in the glass, so as to allow its drawing blood freely to the parts to be scarified ; it was (and is even now) practised by throwing into it a piece of lighted tow or paper, or by intro- ducing a torch for a few seconds, certainly a more rational method; by the former means the tow or paper, by the quick motion re- quired to keep out the surrounding air, was thrown upon the skin of the patient, and by scorching him gave him no small distaste for what he was afterwards to undergo. But abler operators prefer the latter mode of in- troducing the torch or spirit lamp, which in
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