M0013878: Weiss's improved patent cupping apparatus

Date:
January 1955
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/124/63
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: M0013878: Weiss's improved patent cupping apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    add three cases to my former account, for one of which I am indebted to my excellent and intelli¬ gent friend Mr. Brodie. Saville Row, Nov. 10, 182*2. DEAR SIR, I have much pleasure in sending* you the following history of a case, in which I was led to adopt a method of treatment which was originally proposed, and successfully practised, by yourself. Your’s truly, B. C. BRODIE. To Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. A gentleman, seventy years of age, came to Lon¬ don in the spring of the present year, complaining of the following symptoms. He had frequent de¬ sire to void his urine ; the act of voiding it was at¬ tended with more or less difficulty, so that he some¬ times required the introduction of the catheter ; he had a good deal of pain during and after each at¬ tempt to make water ; and, at different periods, he had passed several small oval calculi. He consulted Dr. BaiJlie, who referred him to me, for the pur¬ pose of having his bladder examined. On introduc¬ ing a sound, some calculi were distinctly felt, pre¬ vious to the instrument entering the bladder; and on an examination being made from the rectum, a number of calculi were perceived in the situation of the prostate gland, apparently contained in one cyst, and sliding on each other, under the pressure