Object ID Number:
EH10503
Object Name:
Bleeding Cups
Date of Manufacture:
– 19th to 20th Century
Manufactured from:
1780
Manufactured to:
1850
Description / History:
Set of three glass bleeding cups with metallic covers and knobs. These knobs were most likely used to reduce pressue in the cup.
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.
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:
L–3 Dia–2.5 inches
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