Form of alternative medicine in which local suction is created on the skin

A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.

Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia. Patient with several cupping horns applied to body.

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.

A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.

Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a patient. Etching by A. Brambilla.

A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.

A few practical observations on the art of cupping / by Joseph Staples.

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.

Material: paper; 68 ll. 4to.; leaf dimensions: width 15 cm, length 21 cm

MS.97

1 photograph (album page 20, photograph no. 42) : photoprint ; image 7.9 x 13.4 cm

The Sudan: treatment of pneumonia by cupping with a horn. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.

De cvcvrbitula libellus.

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Cupping Therapy

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A few practical observations on the art of cupping / by Joseph Staples.

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.

MS.97

The Sudan: treatment of pneumonia by cupping with a horn. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.

De cvcvrbitula libellus.

Cupping Therapy

Images from the collections

Images about Cupping Therapy

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A few practical observations on the art of cupping / by Joseph Staples.

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.

MS.97

The Sudan: treatment of pneumonia by cupping with a horn. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.

De cvcvrbitula libellus.

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