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RefNoCLP/14ii/16
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'An account of an extraordinary cure by sweating in hot turff [sic], with a description of the Indian hot houses' by Paul Dudley
Date13 November 1723
DescriptionDudley shares the case study of a patient who, having 'taken a great surfeit' which deprived him of the use of his right arm for nine weeks, is instructed to lay upon hot turf for three quarters of an hour, after which the patient 'found himself much eased and refreshed'. He describes the tradition of hot houses practiced by communities of 'Aborigines' or 'Indians' [Native Americans] in New England and Nantucket.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an extraordinary cure by sweating in hot turff; with a description of the Indian hot-houses; by the Honourable Paul Dudley, Esq; F. R. S.'

Read to the Royal Society on 23 January 1724
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1724.0028
RelatedRecordRBO/11/98
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CodePersonNameDates
NA7811Dudley; Paul (1675 - 1751)1675 - 1751
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