Surgery

Cupping glass (06)

around 1900

In the midwifery school Luxembourg-Pfaffenthal the use of the suction bells was taught to the students around 1900 with all details. So we read in the exercise book of Margarethe WEYDERT from 1897:

     "Belong to a cupping apparatus
     a) the scarificator with 16 small sharp knives
     b) the 12 cups made of brass or glass,
     c) the lamp "[the burner with which the air in the bell was heated].

We show several varieties of suction cups:

a) a rare, 65 mm high bell "Eclair, Breveté SCDG" with two lateral depressions (purpose unknown)

b) a 7o mm high bell with a polished bottom, next to a rare, only 43 mm high bell that could be applied to a child or could put on uneven areas of skin such. the temples.

c) Bell with a spherical handle ("cloche à bouton"); Height 73 mm

d) while in the aforementioned bells the vacuum was created by the bather resp. Doctor surgeon heated the air in the interior with a Kienspan and the bell tightened to the skin when the air cooled, developed in the 19th century bells, the cold, i. without putting fire on the skin, creating the vacuum by pulling off the air with a hand pump. The model presented here "La TENON" with its valve belongs to such a cutlery.