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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 635 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CUPPING . The operation of cupping is one of the methods that have been adopted by surgeons to draw See also:

blood from an inflamed See also:part in See also:order to relieve the inflammation. The skin is washed and dried; a See also:glass See also:cup with a rounded edge is then firmly applied, after the See also:air in it has been heated; the cooling of the air causes the formation of a partial vacuum, and the blood is thus See also:drawn from the neighbouring parts to the skin under the cup. Either the blood is drawn from the patient's See also:body through a number of small wounds which are made in the skin, with a See also:special See also:instrument, before the cup is applied; or the cup is simply applied to the unbroken skin and the blood drawn into the subcutaneous See also:tissue within the circumference of the cup. The result of both methods is the same,—namely, a withdrawal of blood locally from the inflamed part. The former is called moist cupping, the latter dry cupping. This operation has naturally declined in See also:vogue with the obsolescence of blood-letting as a remedy.

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