[f. prec.] A glass vessel or ‘cup’ with an open mouth to be applied to the skin in the operation of cupping: see CUPPING 1.
1545. Raynold, Byrth of Mankynde, H h vij. Cupping glasses, set vpon or vnder the brestes.
a. 1625. Beaum. & Fl., Bloody Brother, IV. ii. (1639), G 2. Still at their books, they will not be pull’d off, They stick like cupping glasses.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1054. The part affected must be cut … and the poyson drawn forth with Cupping-glasses.
1811. A. T. Thomson, Lond. Disp. (1818), 199. They [Leeches] are applied … to places where cupping-glasses cannot be applied.
