Paper, four physiological case studies by Paul Dudley, dated at Roxbury, New England

Reference number: EL/D1/90

Date: 21 January 1726

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Four case-studies are:
- a woman who was cured of her illness by sweating in a hogshead of barley malt
- a woman who was cured of rheumatism by being raised above mugs of rum which had been set alight
- an account of a horse which had a large stone taken out of its stomach
- various methods used to relieve a man who had maggots in his ear after a fly had been there
Read to the Royal Society on 18 June 1727

Reference number: EL/D1/90
Earliest possible date: 21 January 1726
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Paul Dudley

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Paul Dudley, Paper, four physiological case studies by Paul Dudley, dated at Roxbury, New England, 21 January 1726, EL/D1/90, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_d1_90/paper-four-physiological-case-studies-by-paul-dudley-dated-at-roxbury-new-england, accessed on 14 December 2024

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters D1
1663-1735 Reference number: EL/D1

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