The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-26 00:00:00

A c IT'A REivl FDYin

ME following faa's, communicated. to the w07,1d,
by the Rev. Mr. CnitTwRIGHT, afford an antidote
for the most dangerous disease with which the hu-
man body can be afflicted : so that it is hoped one of
the most crowdedavennes_to the graVe is at length
in a great measurL! closed.
" Seventeen years ago I went (says this benevo-
-lent Clergyman) to reside at Brampton, a populous
village near Chesterfield. I had not been there
many months before -a putrid. fever broke out among
us. ` Finding iby far the 'greater number of my pa-
" rishioners too poor to afford themselves medical as-
sistance, I_undertook, by. the help.Of such boOks on
the subject of medicine as were in my rossession,
to prescribe for them. I early attended a boy about
fourteen years of age, who was attacked by. the fe-
ver. He had not been ill many days before the
symptoms were unequivocally putrid. I then ad-'
ministered bark, wine, and such other remedies as
my books directed. My exertions were, however,
of no avail ; hii disorder grew every day more un-
tradable and malignant; so that I was in hourly ex-
pectation of his diSsolution.. Being under the ne-
cessity of taking a journey, before I set off I went
to see him, as 1 thought, for the last time, and- I
prepared his parents
,for the event of. his death,
which I considered as inevitable, and reconciled
them in the best manner I was able, to a loss which
• I'knew they would feel severely. While I was in
conversation on this distressing subject with his
mother, I observed; in a small corner of the room,
a tub of wort working. The sight brought to my
recolleftion an experiment I had 'somewhere met
with, " of a piece of putrid meat being. made sweet
by being suspended over a tub of Wort in the aft of
- fermentation." The idea flashed into my mind,
that-, the yeast might correct the putrid naiure of
this disease, and I instantly gave him two large
- spednftlS. then told the, mother; if she found her
son" better, to repeat 'this dose every three hours.
I then set out for my journey ; upon my return,-
after a few days, I anxiously inquired after the boy,
and was informed he was, recovered. I could not
repress my curiosity, though I was 'greatly fatigued
with my•journey, and night was' come on ; I went
direEtly to where he. lived, which-was three miles
off; in a wild part of the moors; • The boy himself
opened the door, looked surprizingly•well, and told
me he felt better from the instant he took the yeast.
""
After I left .Brampton, I lived in Leicester,
shire:. My-parishioners being there few and opu-
lent, I dropped the medical character enthely, and.
would not prescribe for my own family. One of
my domestics falling ill,, accordingly the Apothe.
Cary was sent .for. His complaint-a violent fever,,
which in -its progress became putrid.
_Hal7-ing great
, reliance, and deservedly, on the Apothecary's pene-
tration and judgrnent, the man was left solely to his
management.' His disorder, however, kept daily
gaining-ground, till at length the Apothecary con,
sidered him in very great danger. At last, finding
everyteffort to be of service to him baffled, he' told
-me he considered it to be a lost case, and that in
his opinion the man could not survive 24 hours.
On the, Apothecary thus giving him up, I determin.
ed to try the effects of yeasty I gave him two
large spoonfuls, and in s s minutes from taking the
yeast, his ,though still feeble, began to get
Composed and full. He, in 32- minutes from his
taking-it, was able to get up from,his bed, and walk
in his room. At the expiration- of the second
hour, 1 gave him a bason .of sago, with a good deal
- of leMon, wine, and ginger in it ; he ate it with an
appetite ; in another .hourl repeated the yeast ; an
hour afterwards Igave t'he bark as before ; at the
next hour he had food ; next had another -dose-Of
yeast, and then went to bed ; it was nine o'clock ;
he told me he had a good. night, and was recovered.
I, however; repeated the medicine, and he was soon
able to go about his business as usual.
" About a year after this, as I Was riding past
a detached farm-house, at• the outskirts of the vil-
lage, I observed a 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 dismounted, and went into the house
to see him ; I found him in the last stage of a putrid
fever.. His tongue was black, his pulse was scarce-
lyi perceptihle, and helay stretched blankest corpse,
in a state of drowsy insensibility. I inamediately
procured some yeast, which I diluted with water,•
and poured down his throat ;' I then left. him with
,little hopes of recovery ; I 'returned; however, in
about two hours, and found him-sensible, and able
,to converse; I then gave him a doie of bark ; he
_afterwards took, at a proper interval, some refresh-
ment. 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;
I 'found him apparently well, -and walking in-his
garden. He was an old man upwards of 70.
. " I have since'administered the yeast to above
50 persons labouring, under, putrid fevers ; and
what is: singular (continues' this benevolent-man),
I have not lost a patient.'! '

The late Nabob of the Carnatic,. AMEER Ur:t.
DAT tn. OMR" AN, continued on the Musnud only
five years and a half. His Highness succeeded his
father, die Nabob WALLAJAH, in the month of
Oaoher, 1796, in which year the Nabob WALLA-
J AEI died, at the extreme old age of seventy-eight
years, and was ever regarded acid esteemed as the
firm and sincere ally of the English nation. It is
somewhat singular, that his Highness the PE MI W A
died also at the same time, viz. the Nabob-Wm.-
AH on the 1.1. th of, Odober, and the PEISHSVA
on the igth. The present Nabob is a younggr son
of the Nabob WALL AJAH, and brother to the late
AMEER D AT. VI. OMR AH