An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.

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An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 painting : watercolour, with gouache

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/43/28

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Wellcome Collection 21381i

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