Cupping Set
notes: label: Description
content: A label in the lid of the wooden box reads in part "DRS. W. S. & F. BLACK'S / COMBINED / CUPPING APPARATUS, BREAST PUMP, STOMACH PUMP, / ASPIRATOR, ATOMIZER, ETC., ETC. /. . . / WM. B. STEWART, MANUFACTURER / TRENTON, N. J."
label: Description
content: Ref: William S. Black and Fergus Black, “Combined Cupping Glass and Breast Pump,” Canadian Patent 26,676 (May 10, 1887). The Blacks lived in Uxbridge, Ontario.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Trenton
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.036
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: M-14165
label: catalog number
content: 302606.036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
label: Object Name
content: cupping set
label: Object Name
content: bloodletting
label: Other Terms
content: Case; Cupping Instruments
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber, hard (hose material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (cups material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8 cm x 25.5 cm x 10.5 cm; 3 1/8 in x 10 1/16 in x 4 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 10 in x 4 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 25.4 cm x 10.795 cm