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Yeast* 
to go into Gre£#-street, Leicesterfieids, to attend Mr. Hadril, Wlio^ 
he said, it was supposed would not outlive the day. I found him 
labouring under a dreadful putrid sore throat ; the tongue was 
black and thick coated, and the pulse quick and fluttering : evacu- 
ations being first premised, yeast and bark in porter were exhibit- 
ed every two hours. His sister who nursed him, was soon after 
attacked by the same fever, but the throat was not affected. She 
was not, like her brother, confined to her bed, but her weakness 
was so great that she could not walk across the room, nor even 
stand up half a minute without support. In both these cases the 
relief from the yeast was very striking, and they were soon cured : 
the wife was also infected, who received a similar benefit from the 
yeast. 
The most extraordinary cases, however, are the following 
In Husband-street, a small confined situation near Berwick-ctreet, 
a fever broke out, which, in the short space of a fortnight, in three 
houses only, swept away six persons. Dr. Thornton’s assistance 
was at this time called in to Mrs. Wollot, No. 1, in 'that street, 
who lay delirious and comatose, with her two children, all in the 
same bed. She refused medicine and food, and was obliged to be 
drenched, in order to get either down s an emetic and cathartic be- 
ing premised, they were all put upon the same plan ; that is. were 
to take, every three hours, two-thirds of a glass of fresh porter, 
with two table spoonfuls of yeast and the juice of half a lemon ; 
.Sind the food, at intervals, was the white of eggs, which Dr. Thorn- 
ton judged of all things were least subject to putrefy,* beat up with 
sugar and water; and, as it was the commencement of summer, 
strawberries were also ordered : and without any further medicine 
from the apothecary than the emetic and purge, although the wo- 
man was at first obliged to be drenched, yet she and her whole fami- 
ly recovered, and this very rapidly. 
Among the poor in St. Giles’s nothing is administered by Dr. 
Thornton, after cleansing the primse vise, than two table spoonfulls 
of yeast in some porter every two hours ; and out of above for- 
ty cases, not one has died under this treatment, 
[4.3 Young's Annals of Agriculture — >168. 
* We know that egg's are kept for a great length of tirrie, and the white, 
even undertime heat of alien’s body, does not putrefy, and it serves as milk to 
the embryo in the egg. 
