cupping

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/28/2013 10:31 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>A non-mechanical form of the cupping blister is called a hickey.

Motto for the day:

1711   J. Addison Spectator No. 195.
¶2   Blistering, Cupping, Bleeding are seldom of use.

But hickeys?

And then there were blisters resulting from
application of the blister-fly/blister-beetle
(cantharides).  What "blistering" often meant in
18th century medicine.  "An essential article of
medicine", according to an 1842 quotation in the OED.

Joel

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