Cupping glass
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- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- 1930 (indexed as 1930)
- Level
- item
- Scope & content
- Clear, tulip shaped with a wide/beveled rim; flat bottom. Narrative: Bunkess (cupping glasses) used in 18th, 19th and early 20th century al cupping glasses, to heal those withs colds, coughs, bronchitis, etc. They would be heated up with a candle and alcohol and placed on the back to suck out the illness with heat.
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- Extent
- Cupping glass : Blown ?, cast (moulded) ?, beveled : clear ; Ht: 5 cm
- Genre / form
- object
- Format
- Object / artifact
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- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗1996_15_01-12a.jpg
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