Object ID Number:
EH10453
Object Name:
Bleeding Cups
Date of Manufacture:
– 19th to 20th Century
Manufactured from:
1870
Manufactured to:
1900
Description / History:
Set of nine glass bleeding cups. Bleeding cups were used in one of two ways; they were either used to simply expand the blood vessels thereby creating a blood filled blister, or were used to expand the blood vessels in order to then cut the blister with a scarificator and let the blood bleed out. Doctors either heated the inside or the outside of the cups to create pressure that induces suction.
Dimensions:
H–3 W–2.75 L–3 Dia–2.5 inches
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