Figure 88.—Old-fashioned cupping in a German physician’s office, Chicago, Illinois, 1904. (SI photo 45726-B.)
Figure 89.—A man employing leeches to reduce his weight, 16th century. (From P. Boaistuau, Histoire Podigieuses, Paris, 1567. Photo courtesy of NLM.)
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Figure 90.—Osborne’s instrument for inserting leeches into the rectum. (From J. Osborne, “Observations on Local Bloodletting,” Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science, volume 3 (1833). Photo courtesy of NLM.)
Figure 91.—Two leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) preserved in plastic.
(Anthropology Catalog no. 143,077; SI photo 73-4233.)