AIM A TOMATON: 
OR 
n w pupping and :]nnrturing 
APPARATUS. 
Manufactured by 
L. ZMZ'ZEC-A-'Y, 3\Zr. ID., 
256 STATE STREET. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
EXPRESS PRINTING HOUSE, TRACY & REW, 23 BUFFALO ST. 
1870. AIM A TOMATON: 
OR 
jjjtw pupping and 
APPARATUS. 
Manufactured by 
Id. ZMZ. ID., 
256 STATE STREET. 
ROCHESTER,N.Y. 
EXPRESS PRINTING HOUSE, TRACY & REW, 23 BUFFALO ST. 
1870. 7 
and illy adapted to meet the requirements of a given case ; 
but this is not its greatest fault. T hold that the operation, even 
as described in Gross's system of surgery, is unnecessarily 
severe and barbarous. Just imagine two or three dozen of 
lancets to be thrust through the skin and subjacent tissues in 
order to procure a small quantity of blood. I think that its 
days of usefulness are past, and many patients have carried 
the marks of it to their grave. 
BAUNSCHEITISM. 
Of late quite a breeze has been stirred up amongst a cer- 
tain class by the mere insertion of needles without drawing 
blood, which are claimed by the inventor, Carl Baunscheit-a 
German mechanic-will produce wonderful effects in the cure 
of diseases. It appears that having an inflammatory attack 
in the hand which proved painful and confined him to his 
house, a certain ill-natured fly or gnat alighted on the affected 
part and stung it, and immediately it relieved the pain ; and 
by this process of reasoning he was led to employ the needles 
and a certain irritant oil which is to be applied after then- 
insertion. This, like the croton and olive oils, as before 
described, for the purpose of producing irritation, brings out 
a fine pustular eruption, which, in a short time, drys up, scales 
off, and disappears. This oil he has the modesty of asking 
$2 or $3 an ounce for, and this great discovery, he is to make 
known at his death; he names his instrument, the Leben- 
swecker, or resuscitator. Of course such a simple con- 
trivance leaves out the great principle of forming a vacuum 
on the surface, without which it is no cupping at all, and does 
not deserve the name. He, however, deserves credit for his 
invention, which is so simple that any boy or person may use 
it. He has written quite a book in behalf of his discovery, 
in which he claims for his invention the cure of all the ills 
that flesh is heir to; that it will prove beneficial in a certain 
class of cases where a counter irritant is required, I don't 
doubt, but that it will produce the remedial and curative 
results, that he c laims for, it is quite absurd. 8 
THE IMPORTANCE OF CUPPING AND DRY CUPPING, ALSO COUN- 
TER IRRITATION. 
That the operation of cupping in diseases, requires atten- 
tion on our part, no one, I imagine, will deny, and that it 
proves a valuable remedial agent in the hands of the profes- 
sion, physicians of large experience, and means of knowing 
well of what they say, all endorse. The practice of general 
bloodletting which was once in such general favor, is now very 
seldom resorted to, but that the local abstraction of blood in 
diseases in which it is required is a point not to be lost sight 
of, and when we have an instrument at hand that can be 
applied so readily with so little pain, delay, or annoyance, its 
full benefits will only be appreciated. In the matter of counter 
irritation it has decidedly the advantage. In my practice 1 
have varied the different agents I have employed for this 
purpose, after cupping, and puncturing with this instrument. 
In calculi, and in the passage of gall stones through their 
respective ducts, I have rubbed in a weak solution of chlo- 
roform and oil with the best results, and in inflammation of 
vessels, phlegmesia dolens, I have applied the mild mer- 
curial ointment. 
In goitre and in enlarged glands I have applied the iodine 
ointment after the application of the instrument, with the hap- 
piest results. In chronic visceral and organic diseases, if no 
lasting change has resulted, I have found the croton and olive 
oils answer all purposes. Dry cupping causes a determination 
of blood to the surface, and is recognized by men of observa- 
tion as an anti-spasmodic of great value, in colic, in spasm of 
the stomach, I have seen it relieve promptly; in nervous 
headache and toothache, also facial neuralgia, after applying 
the dry cup, rub on a few drops of the saturated tincture of 
the root of aconite, and it will often relieve, when you may 
have employed strong narcotics internally without the desired 
effect. 
THE DISEASES THAT CUPPING WILL PROVE BENEFICIAL IN. 
That this new process will prove beneficial in a large num- 
ber of cases,for which cupping was seldom resorted to, I have no 9 
doubt. In aural and opthalmic inflammations, instead of apply- 
ing leeches and blisters, it will commend itself. I intend 
having a small size manufactured for this purpose. In chronic 
bronchitis, in spinal irritation, in chronic inflammation, affec- 
tions of stomach and liver, also renal affections it proves 
of vast utility. In lumbago and sciatica, it will at once take its 
place as remedial agent that can not readily be dispensed with. 
In chronic inflammation of the bladder and bowels, I have found 
it of marked effect, and I recollect well a case of intersusception 
at the ilio coecal valve that I considered it as an important and 
useful adjunct in the case. In chronic rheumatic affec- 
tions, and in that difficult to be diagnosed affection called 
pain in the side, it will prove of great service. In fact, in all 
chronic affections that present a neuralgic or inflammatory 
aspect, it will prove of vast utility. These are a class of 
cases that are tiresome, and troublesome, to the over wrought 
and often ill-paid practitioner. They take medicine, which 
after a time loses its good effects. They are the approbrium 
of medicine and often consign the patient to indescribable 
misery, and an early grave. A physician of eminence assured 
me that in those cases he was convinced he could not practice 
medicine successfully without the aid of such an instrument. I 
have merely noted a few of the affections that this instrument 
will commend itself in. Physicians themselves will be the 
best judges of the cases to use it in, and they alone will have 
the privilege. 
CONCLUSION. 
I now submit this instrument to the profession for their 
approval and endorsement. It is made of durable material, 
and the mechanical constructuni I have tried to render per- 
fect. The needles are nickle plated and non-corrosive. It 
is also submitted at a price that is within the reach of all, 
and no person can manufacture one instrument for double the 
cost. I am aware that certain physicians are adverse to any 
of the profession bringing out any instrument, or patent 
appliance for their use. This question has been of late pretty 
freely ventilated in our medical periodicals, but I think in 
favor of the inventor. I can readily understand why it is that 10 
physicians are adverse to the name of a "patent," as all-most 
all the patients-they are called on to treat, have been tamper- 
ing with some patent medicine, or nostrum, which are often 
illy-adapted to the cases they are used for, by causing delay 
and procrastination, whereby valuable time is wasted, and 
the patient's life often sacrificed. In this case, however, 
things are different, as the physicians themselves have the 
remedy, and they may employ it dr not, as the case may be. 
As it is a fact, that the human system is composed of a series 
of cells, that those cells lie continuous to each other, we can 
readily conceive how it is that a new process set up on the 
surface may relieve a congested and suffering organ subja- 
cent, and when we take into account the perfect sympathy 
that exists through the body, like the current of electricity 
passing through the wire of a battery, that an impression 
made on the surface will be transmitted to a distant part by 
such nerve current, and when we take into account the meta- 
morphosis that is continually going on, the important 
function of the skin, the exosmose and endosmodic action 
that is continually at work, who can doubt that medical 
agents introduced in even a small quantity, when they are 
brought directly to bear on the affected part, will produce 
new, remarkable and curative results, not yet fully recognized. 
I, therefore, claim for this process new, remarkable and cura- 
tive results in chronic inflammatory affections, if no lasting 
change has already resulted. The convenience and compact- 
ness of the instrument, I hope will commend it, and in the 
class of cases already pointed out, I expect for it results 
not now dreamt of. Two great principles, it will be observed, 
underlie the use of this apparatus. One is puncturing in 
vacuo, and the other is applying medical agents of the char- 
acter required by the diseased part through such punctures 
or openings in the surface. Hoping that it will prove a boon 
to the physician and the patient, is the end sought after 
by the inventor. 
L. McKay, M. D. 11 
DIRECTIONS FOR CLEANING AFTER USING. 
First unscrew the ring marked " K," from out the lower 
cup marked " I." Then dress down the needle-bar, marked 
" B," to its full extent, and holding it firmly, take hold 
of and unscrew the needle-plate. The detached needle- 
plate and lower cup can then be washed with tepid water, 
and afterwards thoroughly dried and oiled with pure olive oil. \ % V'