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better, to repeat the dose every two hours. I then 
set out on my journey. Upon my return, after a few days, 
I anxiously inquired after the boy, and was informed that he 
was recovered. I could not repress my curiosity, and though 
greatly fatigued with my journey, andnight was come on, I went 
directly to his residence, which was three miles off, in a 
wild part of the moors, and to my great surprise, the boy 
himself opened the door, looking well, and he told me he had 
felt better from the time he took the yeast. 
“After I left Brampton, I lived in Leicestershire. My 
parishioners there being few and opulent, I dropped the 
medical character entirely, and would not prescribe even for 
my own family. One of my domestics falling ill, the apothe- 
cary was sent for. Having great reliance on the apothecary’s 
skill and judgment, the man was left entirely to his manage- 
ment. His disorder, however, kept gaining ground, and the 
apothecary, finding himself baffled in every attempt to be of 
service to him, told me he considered it to be a lost case, 
and in his opinion the man could not live twenty-four hours. 
On this I determined to try the effects of yeast. I gave him 
two large spoonfuls, and in fifteen minutes from taking the 
yeast, his pulse, though still feeble, began to get composed 
and to fall. In thirty-two minutes from his taking it he was 
able to get up from his bed. The expression that he made 
use of to describe the effect of his own feelings was, that he 
felt ‘ quite lightsome.’ At the expiration of the second hour 
I gave him sago, ginger, &c., and in another hour repeated 
the yeast. An hour afterwards I gave the bark, as before; at 
the next hour he had food, and an hour after that another 
dose of yeast. He continued to recover, and was soon able 
to go about his work as usual. 
“ About a year after this, as I was riding past a detached 
farm house at the outskirts of the village, I observed the 
farmer’s daughter standing at the door, apparently in great 
affliction. On inquiring into the cause of her distress, she 
told me her father was dying. I went into the house and 
