58 On the Efficacy of Ytft 



had another dofe of yeft, and then went tq^bed ; it was nine 

 o'clock. I went to fee him the next morning at fix o'clock 5 

 he told me he had had a good night, and was recovered. I, 

 however, repeated the xnedicine, and he was able to go about 

 his bufincfs as ufual. 



About a jear after this, as I was ridiiig paft a detached 

 farm-hciifc at the outflcirt? of the village, I obferved a far- 

 mer's daughter (landing at the door, apparently in great af- 

 fli6lion; on inquiring into the caaie of her diftrefs, llie told 

 nie her father was dying. I difmounted, and went into the 

 houfe to fee him, I found him in the laft ftage of a putrid 

 fever; his tongue was black, his pulfc was fcarcely percepti- 

 ble, and he lay (Iretchcd out, like aporpfe, in a flate of drowfy- 

 infeufibjlity. I immediately procured Ibme yeft, which I di- 

 hited with water, and poured it down his throat. I then 

 }eft him, with little hopes of recovery. I returned to him 

 in about two hours, and found him fenfible, and able to con- 

 verfc. I then gave him a dofe of bark ; he afterwards took, 

 at a proper interval, fome rcfrefhment : I ftaid with him till 

 he repeated the ycft, and then left him, v/ith direftions how 

 to proceed. I called upon hirn the next morning, at nine 

 o'clock, and found him apparently well walking in his gar- 

 den : he was an old man, upwards of feventy. 



I have fince adminiftorcd the yeft to above fifty pcrfons 

 labouring under putrid fevers, and, what is lingular, conti- 

 nues this benevolent clergyman, " I have loll not one pa- 

 tient." 



D\. Thornton, whofc opportunities have been great in 

 putrid fevers, having the liiperintcndancc of a difpcnfary * 

 which includes the poor of nine parhhcs, and is fituatcd \i\ 

 the vicinity of St. Ciiles's, has made frequent trials of yeft, 

 and fpe^ks highly in its praife. 



One day, fays the Rev. Mr. Townfeud, by accident, as 

 Dr. Thornton went paft a fliop f in Tottenham-Court Road, 

 he heard tlie fcreams of a mother who was agonifed on fce- 

 jno- her chiki, as ftie thought, expire. Thefe fcrcams-rc- 

 newed the ilruggles of the ch.ild, and the.nurfe who attended 

 threatened to take away at this niomcnt the child, that it 



* The General DifpLiifarj. -f Mr. Burford's. 



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