Box JHC Oversize Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Cupping glasses, 1913
Item — Box: JHC Oversize Box 2
Scope and Contents
12 cupping glasses ("bankas" in Yiddish) used for medicinal purposes. Tillie Laufer brought the glasses from Moranezia, Poland, to the United States on the Lusitania, which was sunk on its return voyage to Europe during World War I. The glasses were heated with a candle flame to reduce the air pressure inside the glass and applied to the chest of back to draw out illness.
Dates:
1913
Found in:
Special Collections
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Laufer family papers