Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-07-13
EVENING STAR.
N.............-July II, lss5.


a PROFESSIONAL yrKw OF THEIR nrGrs,,t
~ II T. WIZ OTHER MATTERS OF INTER
lCoTes. Boston Medical and Ss,rJfaql To,,y,a1y
nari VII surely Eli you If you eat that
haau boiled egg. Dr. - says So" We
hearu n woman say this 10 her daughter a a
hotel the other day. We made no anffbls
comment, but could not help thinking ouiet-
~ COW many times we run the risk OF life in
We We s ,an way. Ana when at the supper Ia
Whlch was uneXceptionable. we tried Ia
tremble for her raShneSs and yyonbersi M
pasing The egg made il more digesiible than
pOuihg. And then we wondered IL Or. Blank
ever SAID so. And then we remembered how
many times We had heard that Or. This and
br- mat had said one thing and another thing.
which ne knew they had never said And we
remember the story of three crows that some
body Vomited. And. on the whole we
thought ii is not best 10 trust much 10 what
somebody says pr. Blank said.
But, In the first place, about hari-boilea
eggs We have seen dyspeptics who suffered
untold torments with almost every Kind OF
food, and torments OF which they did tell after
some medicines given for relief No LIQUID
could be taken without suffering Bread be-
came burning acid. Meat and milk were
sond and liquid fires. We have seen those
same sufferers trying 10 avoid food q nd drink
and even going 10 the enema syringe for sus-
tenance. And we have seen their tormprtS
pass away, and the ir hunger relieved by liv-
my upon me whites OF eggs which had been
bolled IN bubbling water for thirty minutes
AT tne END OF week we have given the hard
yolk OF the egg with the white. and upon this
9let alone, without nuid OF any kind. we
nave seen them begin 10 gain flesh and
strength, and refreshing sleep. After weeks
ol THIS treatment, they have been able, with
care, TO begin upon other.
And what medicine?" SAYS Dr. Dose-
Why no medicine. We advised them 10
throw physic TO the dogs; 10 avoid IL as moi
son; that medicine had been partly 10 blame
Tor The dyspepsia. But doctor this and that
thlnk We injured the profession by talking
against medicine. We don't mean 10 talk
against medicine. 1t is very useful thing:
sometimes useful when we give IL, and some
times when we don't. But we don't mean to
use III when IL is not needed, and especially
Wnen something else will do our work better
physicians need not fear that there will NOT
De work enough for them, and IL without
indicating, why so much the better
Ihus much for hard-boiled eggs. Not half
so bad as half-boiled ones, and ten times as
In the second place, about what ..Dr Blank
said" We wish TO caution the reader not TO
Deileve 1.-THE of the statements quoted I'm
mat way. A set of busy bodies like TO tell
what ne said. They misunderstood one half
anu invent the other. You know there are
Ioois In every profession, but you know AZ You
slop 10 mink for moment, that DR.. Blank is
not one OF them. And then there Is an occa-
sonal Old fool, generally a female fool, who
talks Tor a living, who has had everything
.Ial mortal ever had happen 10 her-except
nad every disease more severely than any
one Whom DIR. Blank ever knew 10 have il,
ana recover; and who had every sickness
more IMAM any one else. This is the person to
Wnom you can generally trace DIR. Blanks
opinion.