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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 woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.

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 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.

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

De cvcvrbitula libellus.

M0006840: Woman using a suction cup on a patient's arm

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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.

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

De cvcvrbitula libellus.

M0006840: Woman using a suction cup on a patient's arm