Cupping Set
date: label: date made
content: 1844
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Robert J. Dodd, "Cupping Instrument,” U.S. Patent 3,537 (April 13, 1844). The brass syringe has an ivory handle stamped “Dr. Dodd’s Improved Cupping Apparatus” and can be fitted with either a large or small plate with blades. The case is mahogany and lined with red velvet, with one hinge stamped “Horne Patent.” Dodd (1807-1876) studied at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, joined the U.S. Navy in 1826, and became Director of the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia in 1847.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04288
label: catalog number
content: M-04288
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 3,537
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cupping set, patent model
label: Object Name
content: bloodletting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in x 7 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 2.8575 cm x 18.415 cm