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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    inexperienced hands has the same objection : indeed in particular cases, as on the temples, where the hair is near, it is almost impossible with the greatest dexterity to prevent the patient from feeling the effects of the fire, and consequently suffering much, at least in apprehension. Another method of procuring a vacuum, which might at first sight be better approved, has long been in use, viz. by the exhausting syringe attached to the glass; but as the valves, &e. are apt to get out of order, they have not come into general practice, and have only been revived either by caprice or fashion. Taking advantage of this apparatus, a M. De- mour of Paris has added to it a set of spear- pointed lancets, to produce the scarification without the removal of the glass. Mr. Weiss
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