The opening of a Turkish treatise on cupping and bloodletting by an otherwise unknown author, Mu?ammad ibn Ma?m?d, who states at the end of the treatise that he completed writing it in the month of Rajab 1171 [= March-April 1758]. The copy was made in 177

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