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Cupping

noun
1.
A treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface.





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"Cupping" Quotes from Famous Books



... and long agony, which ended in the amputation of the right foot. But he never relaxed in his labours. He was now writing, lecturing, and teaching chemistry. Rheumatism and acute inflammation of the eye next attacked him; and were treated by cupping, blisetring, and colchicum. Unable himself to write, he went on preparing his lectures, which he dictated to his sister. Pain haunted him day and night, and sleep was only forced by morphia. While in this state of general ...
— Character • Samuel Smiles
... said, "you are possessed by the same preposterous vanity which induced Empedocles to throw himself into Vesuvius, and Erostratus to fire the temple of Diana. I recommend a course of dry cupping to the nape of the neck, to relieve your congested and over-excited brain, and, in the mean time, a decent seclusion from society, that you insult ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 • Various


Words linked to "Cupping" :   cup, bloodletting


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