738 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
microbe which is causative of most purulent inflammations in 
the human subject. This Levurine is actually fresh barm from 
the brewhouse, dried skilfully, and reduced to a powder, of a 
light chestnut colour, with a smell of fermenting beer. Treat- 
ment of putrid, or septic inflammations by it is found (in Paris) 
to be much superior to that by the yeast of fresh beer. It is 
well borne by the stomach, and can be given freely, even up to 
six teaspoonfuls of the powder in a day ; such an energetic course 
being necessary when the septic poisoning by disease is intense. 
Furthermore, it will act as preventive of microbic assaults, if 
taken with this view at the time of surgical operations, where 
infection seems a thing to be feared. For unhealthy boils, or 
a sloughing carbuncle, as well as for septic pneumonia (lung 
inflammation of a low, prostrating type), or septic rheumatism, 
when acute, Barm, administered liberally in the manner now 
enjoined, may justly claim curative powers almost positively 
specific. The best way of giving it is by dissolving doses (a 
teaspoonful at a time) of the powder in a little beer, to be taken 
between meals; or it can be exhibited in cachets, as to be had 
from a druggist for any such purpose. Professor Doyen, of 
Paris, has brought this potential remedy before the notice of 
his medical brethren in the Revue Critique de Medecine, et de 
Chirurgie. Fresh Beer Yeast is employed medicinally as an 
antiseptic stimulant in low fevers of a putrid type ; it is of much 
service when, because of inflammatory risks, wine is not 
admissible. 
’ 
Virgil, the familiar Latin poet, has related in Homeric fashion 
the toils and troubles encountered by Aineas and his followers 
when seeking a friendly resting-place, where they might again 
establish themselves after their long wanderings since the fall 
of Troy. Oracular prophecy had foretold, through Ascanius, 
the son of Aneas, a happy termination to their laborious quest, 
** Quum te, nate, fames ignota ad litora vectum 
Accisis coget dapibus consumere mensas ; 
Tum sperare domos defessus, ibigue memento 
Prima locare manu, molirique aggere tecta.” 
““My son, when famine on an unknown shore 
Shall make thee, failing food, the very plates devour, 
Then, worn and wearied, look to find home-ground, 
And build thy walls, and back them with a mound.” 
