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Cupping is not only practised in China, but has also bee used in ancient Egypt and the entire African continent; to the North and the South Americans; the entire Northern Europeans including Russia, Poland and the Scandinavian counties; all the Mediterranean countries including Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, as well as in the UK. In England Dr. William Marsden, the founder of the Royal Marsden Hospital, employed cupping therapy quite extensively at his ‘Free Hospital’ in Gray’s Inn Road during the 1830s.
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