Cupping set dating from around the year 1860, England. This set comprises of four cups and two brass and steel scarificators, complete with a morocco

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Cupping set dating from around the year 1860, England. This set comprises of four cups and two brass and steel scarificators, complete with a morocco leather case. This set would have been used in a procedure called 'wet cupping', a form of bloodletting used in the nineteenth century to 'treat' a range of ailments by removing surplus bodily 'humours' (fluids within the body).

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