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Yeast for typhus River.

--A correspondent, writes to the London Times:

‘ I think it desirable to make generally known a very cheap and simple remedy for typhus or other low fever. The remedy is yeast. A table spoonful of this administered in a case where life was all but extinct, repeated every ten minutes till the cure was effected, restored the patient to such perfect health that he was at his work in a few days' time. A small quantity infused in the common drink of those who cannot obtain a sufficiency of nourishing food, might infuse such an amount of vitality in the constitution as might enable it to resist the depressing tendencies in the

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