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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    ability), from a disinclination or reluctance to inflict the unavoidable pain it occasioned their patients, have refused to perform the operation, and consigned it to persons in whose hands it has fallen into unmerited disrepute. This was the natural consequence of the faulty manner in which it was obliged to be per- formed, and wras only to be remedied by rendering the operation so simple as to re- quire little dexterity on the part of the operator, and no apprehension on that of the patient, whose comfort ought above all things to be considered. During my acquaintance with the profession I have too frequently had to regret the inadequacy of the instruments used in cupping, to the advantages that ought to have resulted from the remedy. I have often seen patients shrink from the operation which was most desirable in their cases, and
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