Surg. Obs. Also 7 Sc. vantose. [a. OF. ventose, ventouse (F. ventouse, Prov., Sp., Pg., It. ventosa), ad. L. ventōsa (sc. cucurbita), fem. of ventōsus, f. ventus wind.] A species of cupping-glass. Also attrib.
1500. Ortus Vocab., Guna, a ventose boxe.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg., N iij. Ventose is an instrument made in maner of a boxe with a streyt necke and a wyde bely.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 346/1. Exhauste the bloode and froth therout with ventoses, a kinde of boxinge.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 137. Cupping glasses, boxes, and ventoses, draw the woorst matter out of the flesh.
1656. J. Smith, Pract. Physick, 44. Heurnius useth first Cupping-glasses and ventoses to the feet and Liver.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. Ventose, a Cupping-glass…. The ingenious Mr. Hawksbee hath now found a way of applying Cupping-glasses without Fire, by means of a small Air-Pump.
