concept
Cupping-glasses (krovososnye banochki)
cupping-glasses
also: кровососные баночки, банки
Small glass cups applied to the skin and heated to create suction, a folk and semi-medical bloodletting treatment offered by bathhouse barbers alongside shaves and haircuts -- the pretext that opens the story's first scene.
Reading notes
- At the Baths §6 cupping-glasses
Heated glass cups applied to the skin to raise blisters by suction, a folk bloodletting treatment a bathhouse barber commonly offered alongside shaves and haircuts.
- A Fairground "Total" §41 cupping-glasses
Small heated glass cups applied to the skin to draw blood, a folk-medical treatment the feldsher administered to "restore" the delirious merchant -- and is now billing three roubles for.