Product Description

Traditional Glass French Ventouse. The dictionary of the French Academy in its first edition (1694) describes (p. 628) medical suction as a “vessel of glass is applied to the skin with candles or tow lights to attract bad blood”. The edition of 1762 sets the cup as a “surgical instrument” and states that it can be metal (copper, silver…) and that its purpose is “to attract violent moods from within, outside. However, nowadays, these cute little items, can be used as Tealight holders….