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live poetry t and because the elegant acquirements of a gentleman 
so eminent for mechanical improvements, well deserve to be gene- 
rally known. T. C. 
On the efficacy of Yeast in the cure of those diseases 
known by the name of Putrid 
A remedy, which contains much fixed air, has been lately 
started by the Rev. Mr. Cartwright, which merits the highest at- 
tention. Seventeen years ago, says this gentleman, I went to re- 
side at Brampton, a very populous village near Chesterfield. I had 
not been there many months before a putrid fever broke out among 
>*s : finding by far the greater number of my new parishoners 
much too poor to afford themselves medical assistance, I under- 
took, by the help of such books on the subject of medicine as were 
in my possession, to prescribe for them. I early attended a boy 
about fourteen years of age who was attacked by this fever ; he 
had not been ill many days before the symptoms were unequivocal - 
ly putrid. 1 then administered bark, wine, and such other reme- 
dies as my book directed. My exertions, however, were of no 
avail ; his disorder grew every day more untractabie and malig- 
nant, so that I was in hourly expectation of his dissolution. Being 
under the absolute necessity of taking a journey, — before I set o{f 
I went to see him, as I thought, for the last time, and I prepared 
his parents for the event of his death, which I considered as inevi- 
table, and reconciled them in the best manner I could to a loss 
which I knew they would feel severely. While I was in conver- 
sation on this distressing subject with his mother, I observed in 
a corner of the room a small tub of wort working ; the sight 
brought to my recollection an experiment I had somewhere met 
with, of a piece of putrid meat being made sweet by being sus- 
pended over a tub of wort in the act of fermentation. The idea 
instantly flashed into my mind that the yeast might correct the 
putrid nature of this disease, and I instantly gave him two large 
spoonbills. I then told the mother, if she found her son better, to 
repeat this dose every three hours. I then set out on my journey fc 
* The contents of this article cannot be too generally known. How many 
valuable lives are yearly lost by* putrid sore throats, fevers, See. which might 
be saved to the community, and to their relatives, if the cure here recom- 
mended were generally known and resorted to! with proper medical aid, 
however, where it can be had. Arthur Young. 
