Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-09
The Same Wonderful Microscopic Plant That
Raises Your Bread Is NoW Sold to Cure q
B0ils and Certain Intestinal Ailments
and Improve the Skin and COmpLexiOn

@OMPRESSED yeast. substance long
familiar 10 everybody, has recently
been found TO possess many wonder
fu properties not hitherto known. In fact,
yeast is proving itself 10 be one OF the
most interesting substances in nature
Medical research has recently demon
sratcd that yeast cures or helps many
diseases including diabetes, intestinal dis
orders. several skin diseases. anthrax and
bols The cure is in some diseases such
rs anemia. due to improving the nourish-
men. OF the body and in others like intes-
final disorders 70 checking the growth OF
dangerous bacteria.
A. the same time it is claimed 10 he val
liable a a promoter OF womens beauty
y fine skin l., OF course the first essentia!
OF beauty and as yeast has been found
10 be successful in treating skin
troubles it has necessarily been very help
ful 10 beauty. That disagreeable skin
ailment. acne. which produces red spots
with black centre and has saddened the
lives o. thousands OF women appears 20
be cured By yeast allnos, Invariably.
Even when no definite skin disease exists
the beauty o, the skin, its color and iinc-
ness are improved by yeast used extern
all. or internally.
Yeast is said 10 be one OF the most
perfect food substances. When mixed
with other food il has the power OF MAX
fg up some essential 10 nourishmen,.
which has been removed from the other
articles of diet by drying or milling or
preservation or bad cooking Further. it
assists the body to digest food which
without II would not be assimated
Children often fail 10 grow on All ap-
pareuuy ample diet because they do not
assimila'e the food they swallow. In
many cases it has been found that little
niorscl OF yeast cake three times a dav
before meals often will correct this con
dition Thousands OF ci,v school children
are known to re suffering from, under
nourshment and imperfcc; assimilation
Medical scientists believe tina, bakers
yeast added 20 the daily food would work
IN improvement in these cases.
CDR Philip y Hawk. Of the famous
Jefferson Medical College. OF Philadelphia
heads 2 group OF scientists who have been
investigating the uses of bakers Yeast both
Very remarkable results were obtained
In cases Of !urunculosIs or bois Sixteen
on, OF seventeen cases OF this distressing
alment were cured Dv half a cake OF YEA s,
taken three times daily before meals.
east cake also healed boils when an
Piled externally
DR.. Hawk and his colleagues report tina,
bakers yeast was most success full in the
treatment Of furunculosjS acne ar6 cop
htipation. Out OF twenty-five cases of
acne all were cured
cures were also effected by Yeast in duo
dcna! tintestnan ulcer conjunctivftis o.!
the eye, gaStro.int. stina, catarrh. arthriti;
de!ormans IA painful form OF rhcumat isn,
bronchitis and swollen glands The skin
diseases known as psoriasis. crythcma
urNoaria. pruritns and f0llcuitis were i'm.
proved or cured by bakers Yeast. In FIVE
cases OF eczema. however, no Improvement
was Obtained
In many cases dead yeas, is more ef
1cctiN" IMAM live, showing tlar The i'm
prov"men' in such cases ia due 10 tho mn
tri''e va iue OF the plant. In stomach and
ip,es'l''al troubles where the live yeast
causes gas dead Yeast Is preferable
ne "aiHe OF yeast in improving tho
general condition OF the skin has now
become widely known through The RI.
searches OF thcsc scientists. Ccnc-o,
practitioners. who have been tol,ovin =;
t9'F VOTE nave recommended II 10 their
patents n" scientists who hav" boon
80" 't '"t SUBJECT have received soma
rohla'Haolc letters from women who have
used il One CORRESPONDENT, v-o,o ""'
NY complexion had become dep,ora hl,,
ted nose, greasy, n.mply skin Alta
using the yeast cake for three wccks ~
Germany my nose had assumed a NAM,