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The fourth Experiment is made on 'the Cedar of 
Lib anus , grafted on the Laryx, which drops its Leaves 
in the Winter-, yet maintains the Cedar in as flourifh- 
ing Condition, as if it had been on a Tree that held the 
Leaves all the Winter and the Part of the Graft, left 
below the Grafting, is in as good Health a^ the Part 
above the Grafting. o ? r , T 
II. An Account of an extraordinary Cure by Sweat- 
ing in Hot Turf $ with a Vefcriptwn of the In- 
dian Hot-Houfes 5 by the Honourable Paul 
Dudley, Effo F. K. S. 
_ 
I N the Year 1 704. Teter Coffin, Efq^ of Exeter in 
New England, being then feventy four Years of 
Age, had taken a great Surfeit, as ’twas thought, by 
drinking cold Water, in a very hot Day, and when he 
had heated himfelf in the Woods. This Surfeit fettled 
principally in his right Side, but gave him a racking 
Pain all over his Body, and particularly depriv’d him 
of the Ufe of his right Arm : In this Condition ne kept 
his Houfe and Bed for nine Weeks, and his Recovery, 
confidering his Age, was defpaired of *, when a Son of 
his, from whom I had the Relation, making a \ iiit to 
his Father, propofed the Sweating of him m Turff . 
The Father readily agreed to it, having ufed many 
Medicines, from other Phylicians, without any Effect. 
Immediately Orders were given to cut a large Oven full 
of Turff ; the Pieces might be to eighteen Inches fquare. 
The Turff it felf was of Englijb Grafs, and only the 
Swerd, or Top of the Earth, with the Grafs* Befoie 
the Turff was put into the Oven, the Dodor rubb’d 
r U 2 ' f the 
