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An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.
Reference: 21338i
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A treatise on the art of cupping : in which the history of that operation is traced, the complaints in which it is useful indicated, and the most approved method of performing it described / by Thomas Mapleson, Cupper to His Majesty.
Mapleson, Thomas, Cupper, active 1813-1829.Date: 1821
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John Rigg, cupper : at the Hummums in the Little Piazza Covent-Garden, with a back door from Charles-Street where gentlemen only may be always accommodated (if not full) in the best and neatest manner with lodging, sweating, bathing, or cupping.
Rigg, John, -1763.Date: [1750?]
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Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia. Patient with several cupping horns applied to body.
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A treatise on the art of cupping : in which the history of that operation is traced, the complaints in which it is useful indicated, and the most approved method of performing it described / by Thomas Mapleson.
Mapleson, Thomas, Cupper, active 1813-1829.Date: 1830
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A short treatise on the operation of cupping / By Monson Hills, cupper to Guy's Hospital.
Hills, Monson, 1792-1853.Date: 1832
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A treatise on the art of cupping.
Mapleson, Thomas.Date: 1813
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Dispensing of medical electricity (electrotherapy). Oil painting by Edmund Bristow, 1824.
Bristow, Edmund, 1787-1876.Date: 1824Reference: 47342i
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The Sudan: treatment of pneumonia by cupping with a horn. Photograph by R.G. Archibald, 1911.
Archibald, R. G. (Robert George), Sir, 1880-1953.Date: 1911Reference: 494848i
Part of: People and places around the Upper Nile and Gebel Lado, Equatorial Sudan.
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A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
Lambrechts, Jan Baptist, 1680-approximately 1731.Reference: 45018i
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An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.
Reference: 21381i
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A bathing room attendant applying the method of cupping to a male customer in an active bathing house. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
Weigel, Johann Christoph, 1661-1726.Date: 1698Reference: 23065i
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M0010074: "Peasant Spa" in Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia
Date: 11 July 1947Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/88/80
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 21359i
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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.
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686-1755.Date: [1736]Reference: 23083i
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Sudan: barbering, tooth-drawing and cupping being practised. Photograph, ca. 1920.
Date: 1920Reference: 580559i
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[Phlebotomiographía], or, A treatise of phlebotomy : demonstrating the necessity of it in diseases; the time for elections. And likewise of the use and application of cupping-glasses, and leeches. Whereupon is added a brief and most methodicall tract of the crisis / Written originally in French, by Da de Plumis Campi ; and now faithfully rendred into English, by E.W. well-wisher to physick and chirurgery.
Planis Campy, David de, 1589-approximately 1644.Date: 1658
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M0005950: Description of five cupping glasses
Date: 01 January 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/49/51
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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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.
Reference: 18136i
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One of a group of soldiers has his arm cupped; representing the political situation of France in relation to the German states. Coloured etching, 1820.
Date: 1820Reference: 17846i
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Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia. Where ancient method of cupping using cow horns is practised.
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The art of cupping / Hedwig Manz.
Manz, Hedwig.Date: [2009], ©2009
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M0005296: Man cupping the cheek of a youth
Date: November 1937Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/43/27
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
Dusart, Cornelis, 1660-1704.Date: 1695Reference: 23037i
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A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 23060i

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An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.

A treatise on the art of cupping : in which the history of that operation is traced, the complaints in which it is useful indicated, and the most approved method of performing it described / by Thomas Mapleson, Cupper to His Majesty.

John Rigg, cupper : at the Hummums in the Little Piazza Covent-Garden, with a back door from Charles-Street where gentlemen only may be always accommodated (if not full) in the best and neatest manner with lodging, sweating, bathing, or cupping.

Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia. Patient with several cupping horns applied to body.

A treatise on the art of cupping : in which the history of that operation is traced, the complaints in which it is useful indicated, and the most approved method of performing it described / by Thomas Mapleson.

A short treatise on the operation of cupping / By Monson Hills, cupper to Guy's Hospital.

A treatise on the art of cupping.

Dispensing of medical electricity (electrotherapy). Oil painting by Edmund Bristow, 1824.

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

A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.

An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.

A bathing room attendant applying the method of cupping to a male customer in an active bathing house. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.

M0010074: "Peasant Spa" in Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia

An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.

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.

Sudan: barbering, tooth-drawing and cupping being practised. Photograph, ca. 1920.

M0005950: Description of five cupping glasses

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.

One of a group of soldiers has his arm cupped; representing the political situation of France in relation to the German states. Coloured etching, 1820.

Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia. Where ancient method of cupping using cow horns is practised.

The art of cupping / Hedwig Manz.

M0005296: Man cupping the cheek of a youth

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

A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.