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procured some yeast, which I diluted with water, and poured it 
down his throat. I then left him, with little hopes of recovery. 
I returned to him in about two hours, and found him sensible, and 
able to converse. I then gave him a dose of bark ; he afterwards 
took, at a proper interval, some refreshment ; I staid with him till 
he repeated the yeast, and then left him, with directions how to 
proceed. I called upon him the next morning at nine o’clock, 
and found him apparently well, walking in his garden ; he was an 
old man upwards of seventy. 
I have since administered the yeast to above fifty persons la- 
bouring under putrid fevers ; and, what is singular, continues this 
benevolent clergyman, u I have not lost one patient.” 
Dr. Thornton, whose opportunities have been great in putrid 
fevers, having the superintendance of a dispensary* which in- 
cludes the poor of nine parishes, and is situated in the vicinity of 
St. Giles’s, has made frequent trials of yeast, and speaks highly 
in its praise. 
One day, says the Rev. Mr. Townsend, by accident, as Dr, 
Thornton went past a shopf in Tottenham-Court-Road, he heard 
the screams of a mother who was agonized on seeing her child, as 
he thought, expire. These screams renewed the struggles of 
the child, and the nurse who attended threatened to take away at 
this moment the child, that it might die in quiet. Dr. Thornton 
got down immediately some tartar emetic, which quickly acted as 
a vomit ; and after the operation was over he gave rhubarb, which 
cleared the intestines ; he then ordered the child, every two hours, 
yeast and water, with wine and bark, and in three days the dying 
child was up and well. 
The infection had spread to two others in the same house : in 
this child, and in another, the putrid fever was attended with swell- 
ed glands, which suppurated, and threatened gangrene : in a ro- 
bust servant girl it took the form of a dreadful putrid sore throat ; 
she had an emetic, and afterwards some rhubarb, then yeast and 
water every two hours. The first effect of this newly discovered 
remedy was that of rendering the pulse fuller, and fifteen beats 
less in a minute, and her black tongue soon assumed a clean and 
red appearance : without bark or wine she was speedily reco- 
vered. 
In Dr. Beddoes’s Considerations there are the following cures : 
Mr. Caldwell, engraver, (as Dr. Thornton reports,) requested him 
The General Dispensary. 
f Mr. Ber ford’s. 
