At the Beginning of Vacuum Therapy: from the Blood-Sucking Cups to the Bier-Klapp Method

A brief digression to the history of development of a method of vacuum therapy includes documentary recorded sequence of use of the low-dosed negative pressure in medical practice, including in treatment of wounds and a wound infection from the most ancient times to an era of origin of antibiotics. Evolution of technical solutions and the relation to a method which had the success and oblivion periods is presented. Expansion of area of its application was always accompanied by positive effect and every time gave to hope for the solution of many problems to surgeries. In this regard exclusive value gets that fact that at all options of practical realization of a method from dry banks, Junod and Klapp's devices to a Bier's stagnant hyperemia is found the same pathophysiological mechanism connected with change of blood circulation in a zone of influence by vacuum. This circumstance provides medical efficiency of a method which in all cases it would be fair to call vacuum therapy.