A treatise on practical cupping : comprising an historical relation of the operation through ancient and modern times; with a copious and minute description of the several methods of performing it; intended for the instruction of the medical student, and of practitioners in general / By Samuel Bayfield.

  • Bayfield, Samuel, active 1823.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A treatise on practical cupping : comprising an historical relation of the operation through ancient and modern times; with a copious and minute description of the several methods of performing it; intended for the instruction of the medical student, and of practitioners in general / By Samuel Bayfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Kings College London. The original may be consulted at Kings College London.

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    SECT. m. In applying the cupping-glasses, they should be placed as far asunder as their number, and the situation of the part of the body to which it is intended to affix them will allow ; otherwise they derange each other. An inch is the least space that should intervene, and more even than this if there be several cups applied; for the greater the number, so much more space should there be between them, else there is a painful separation of the inte- guments from the contiguous glass or glasses occasioned as every fresh one is applied.