Middle English Dictionary Entry
ventọ̄sing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | ventọ̄sing(e ger. Also ventousinge, ventisinge. |
| Etymology | From ventọ̄sen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Surg. The drawing of blood or other matter by means of a cupping glass, cupping; ?also, the application of suction to a body part without the promotion of bleeding; ~ boiste (box), a cupping glass.
Associated quotations
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2747 : The clothered blood for any lechecraft Corrupteth and is in his bouk ylaft, That neither veyne blood ne ventusynge Ne drynke of herbes may been his helpynge.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)101/9 : If þat þou myȝtist nouȝt defende þe crampe neiþer wiþ blood letynge neiþer wiþ ventusynge ne wiþ clisterie…þanne it is nessessarie þat þou kutte al atwo þilke senewe…þat is prickid.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)156b/a : Ventosyng is a putting to of ventosez by which materie intercutanee, i. atuix þe skyn and flesh, ys auoided.
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)2.115/1 : 2a þing is complete after diuersite of materie…And with ventosyngez and cetonijs or cauteriez vpon þe spaudez.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)47 marg. : For vayne þat is schorne in twa of blode latynge or of bolnyng or whelynge of garsynge or ventousynge.
- a1450 Diseases Women(2) (Sln 2463)102 : In þe precipitacion of þe moder sixe thinges ben nedefull: the first is ventusyng and that in thre stedes.
- a1450 Diseases Women(2) (Sln 2463)104 : She schal holde sume thyng þat is of swete smell atte here nose & this shall be done the whiles þat þe ventosing boistes ben on þe wombe.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)151b/b : Þo þat haue condiciouns contrarie to þese schal not be leten blood, þat is to seie, þo þat ben woundid, to whom ventusynge is good, & þo ben þei þat ventusynge is good fore.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)133a : A Ventisynge [Monson: Ventosynge] box: guma, gumis, ventosa.
- a1500 12 PTrib.(2) (Rwl C.894)394 : Blood-lettynge…is of two maners, as by openynge…and boxynge or ventusyng.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)65/2 : Goud ys [in November] þe heued-veyne for to a-vente a litel, garsen, and ventosyng for to sitte, for þenne beþ alle vmores prest.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ventosing box.