| RefNo | CLP/14ii/16 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of an extraordinary cure by sweating in hot turff [sic], with a description of the Indian hot houses' by Paul Dudley |
| Date | 13 November 1723 |
| Description | Dudley 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 |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1724.0028 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/11/98 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7811 | Dudley; Paul (1675 - 1751) | 1675 - 1751 |