In old pharmacy, a cucupha or cucufa was a cap, or cover for the head, with cephalic spices quilted in it, worn for certain nervous distempers, particularly those affecting the head.
References "cucupha". Oxford English Dictionary (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Cucupha". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.