A treatise on the art of cupping.

  • Mapleson, Thomas.
Date:
1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the art of cupping. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    taken captive by the native Indians, he proceeds to observe: “ We had not been long here, before an occurrence happened, which tended much to in- crease the good opinion Lacenta and his people had conceived of us, and brought me into particular esteem with them. “ It so happened, that one of La- centals wives being indisposed, was to be let blood, which the Indians perform in this manner .—The patient is seated on a stone in the river, and one with a small bow shoots little arrows into the naked body of the patient, up and down, shooting them as fast as he can, and not missing any part. But the arrows are aurded, so that they pene-