Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-28
HARD.BOILED EGGS.
Professional View of Their Digestibility,
With Other Matters of Interest to the

G Professional View of Their Dieestibility,
With Other Matters of Interest to the
Stomach.
Correspondence of the Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal.
cit will surely kill you if you eat
that hard boiled egg. DR. says
So" We heard woman say this to her
daughter at a hotel the other day. We
made no audible comment, but could
not help thinking quietly how many
times we ran the risk Of life in the
same way. And when at the supper
table, we saw the parent eating sponge
cake, which was unexceptionable, we
tried to tremble for her rashness, and
wondered if baking the egg made it
more digestible than boiling. And
then we wondered if DR.. Blank ever
said SO. And then we remembered how
many times he had heard that pr. this
and DR.. that had said one thing and
another thing, which we know they had
never said. And we remember the
story of the three crows that somebody
vomited. And, on the whole, we
thought that it is not best to trust much
to what somebody says DR.. Blank said.
But, in the first place, about hard
boiled eggs. We have seen dyspeptics
who suffered untold torments with al
most every kind of food, and torments
of Which they did tell after some medi-
cines given for relief. No liquid could
be taken without suffering. Bread be-
came burning acid. Meat and milk
were solid and liquid fires. We have
seen these same sufferers trying to avoid
food and drink, and even going to the
enema syrrage for sustenance. And we
have seen their torments pass away, and
thar hunger relieved by living upon
tie whites of eggs which had been boil
ed In bubbling water for thirty minutes.
at the end of week we have given the
hard yolk of the egg with the white,
and upon this diet alone, without fluid
of any kind, we have seen them begin
to gain flesh and strength, and refresh
ing sleep. After weeks of this treat
ment, they have been able, with care, to
begin upon other.
"And what medicine?" says DR..
Doser. Why, no medicine. We advised
them to throw physic to the dogs; to
avoid it as poison; that medicine had
been partly to blame for the dyspepsia
But, Doctor this and that think we in
ured the profession by talking against
medicine We don't mean to talk
against medicine It is very useful
thing, sometimes useful when we give
it, and sometimes when we don't. But
we don't mean to use it when it is not
needed, and especially when something
else will do our work better Physic-
ians need not fear that there will not be
work enough for them, and if without
indicating, why, SO much the better
This much for hard boiled eggs
Not half so bad as half boiled ones, and
ten times as easy to digest as raw eggs,
even in egg-nogg.
In the second place, about what cdr.
Blank said" We wish to caution the
reader not to believe 1.-THE of the
statements quoted in that way A set of
busybodies like to tell what he said.
They misunderstood one-half, and in
vent the other. You know that there
are fools in every profession, but you
know, II you stop to think, for mo-
ment, that DIR. Blank is not one of them.
And then there is an occasional old
fool, generally female fool, who talks
for living, who has had everything
that mortal ever had happen to her
except the risks CT becoming parent;
who always had every disease more
severely than any whom DR.. Blank
ever knew to have it, and recover; and
who had every sickness more than any
one else. This is the person to whom
you can generally trace DR.. Blanks
opinion.