Paper, 'An account of an extraordinary cure by sweating in hot turff [sic], with a description of the Indian hot houses' by Paul Dudley
Reference number: CLP/14ii/16
Date: 13 November 1723
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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
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- CLP/14ii/16
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- 13 November 1723
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- 2 pages
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Paul Dudley, Paper, 'An account of an extraordinary cure by sweating in hot turff [sic], with a description of the Indian hot houses' by Paul Dudley, 13 November 1723, CLP/14ii/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_16/paper-an-account-of-an-extraordinary-cure-by-sweating-in-hot-turff-sic-with-a-description-of-the-indian-hot-houses-by-paul-dudley, accessed on 05 December 2025
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Date: 31st December 1724
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1724.0028
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