Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-05-20
Hard Boiled Eggs and Other
Matters,


ut Will surely kill you if you eat
that hard boiled egg. DR.. - says
so."
We heard woman say this to her
daughter at hotel the other day. We
made no audible comment, but could
not help thinking quietly how many
times we run the risk of life in the
same way. And when at supper table
we saw this parent eating sponge cake,
which was unexceptionable, we tried
to tremble for her rashness, and won
dered if baking the egg made it more
digestible than boiling. And then we
wondered if ever DR.. Blank said SO.
And then we remembered how many
times we had heard that DR.. this and
DIR. that had said one thing and an
other thing, which we knew they had
never said. And we remembered the
story of the three crows that some
| body 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 dyspep
tics who suffered untold torments
with almost every kind Of food, and
| torments which they did tell after
some medicines given for relief. Ne
| LIQUID could be taken without suffer
| ing. Bread became a burning acid.
Meat and milk were solid liquid fires.
We have seen these same sufferers try
ing to aveid food and drink, and even
going to the enema syringe for susie
nenee. And we have seen their hun
ger relieved by living upon the white
of eggs which had been boiled in bub-
bling water for thirty minutes. At the
end of week we have given the hard
yelk 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 refreshing
sleep. After weeks of this treatment
they have been able, with care, to be-
gin upon other food.
Sand what medicine 2" says DR..
| Doser. Why, no medicine. We ad-
vised them to throw physic to the
dogs to avoid it as poison; that med
icine had been partly to blame for the
dyspepsia. But Doctor This and That
think we injured the profession by
talking against medicine. We don
mean to talk against medicine. 1t 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 especial
!, ly when something else will do oul
work better. Physicians need not feal
that there will not be work enough for
them, and if without medicating, 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-nog.
In the second place, about what DR.
Blank said. We wish to caution tht
{ reader not to believe q 1.-THE of the
statements quoted in that way. A SCI
of busy bodies like to tell what he
4 said. They misunderstood one-half
f, and invent the other. You know there
are fools in every profession, but you
e know, if YOU stop to think for mo
! ment. that DR.. Blank is one of them
, And then there is an occasion ole
q fool generally q female fool, who
= +ellrs for a living, who has had every
tb;rs, that mortal ever had hapen to
! borSexcept the risks of becoming q
: narent; who always had every disease
= more severely than any one whom DR.
: Blank ever knew to have it, and recoV
{ er; and who had every sickness more
than any one else. This is the person
+. to whom you can generally trace br,
Q Blanks opinion.-[C Correspondence o.
: Boston Medical and Surgical Jour
t nal.
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