Shallow bowls from 4 to 6 inches in diameter, with one flat handle usually flush with the rim, employed by barber-surgeons of the 17th and 18th centuries in bleeding a patient. In England the term is also sometimes applied to what in America is known as porringers.
AAT
3000196361
bleeding-bowls
bowl, bleeding
bowls, bleeding
bowls, cupping
cupping bowls
12yrs ago
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