The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20
HARD-BoTLED EGGS.
A Professional View Of their Digesti-
bihty. with Other Matters Of Interest
to the Stomach.

Correspondence of the Boston Medical and surgic'
ct 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 think
iug quietly how many times We run the
risk of life in the same way. And when
ut the supper table, we saw the parent eating
sponge cake, which was uuexceptionable,
we tried to tremble for her rashness, and
wondered if baking the eggs made it more
digestible than boiling. And then we
wondered ifDr. Blank ever said So. And
then we remembered how many times we
had heard that DIR. this aud DIR. that had
said one thing aud another thing. which
we know they had never said. And we
remembered 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 DIR.
Blank said.
But, in the first place, about hard boiled
eggs. We have seen dyspeptics who
suffered untold torments with almost
every kind of food, and torments of which
they did tell after some mediolnes given
for relief. No liquid could be taken with
out suffering. Bread became a burning
acid Meat aud milk were solid and liquid
fires. We have seen these same sufferers
trying to avoid food and drink and even
going to the enema syringe for sustenauce
And we have seen their torments pass
away, aud their hunger relieved by living
upon the whites of eggs which had been
boiled 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 thenl
begin to gain flesh and strength, aud re-
freshing sleep. After weeks of this treat
ment, they have been able, with care, t
begin upon other.
" And what medicine ?" says DR.
Doser. Why, no medicine. We advised
them to throw physic to the dogs; to avolC
it as poison that medicine had been partl.
TO blame for the dyspepsia. But, Docto
this and hat think we injured the profes
sion by talking against medicine. Medon
mean TO talk against medicine. 1t is
very useful thing, sometimes useful whel
We give il, aud sometimes when we don
But We don't mean to use 1t when u i
nor needed, and especilly when somethin
elsewill do our work better. Physician
need not fear that there will not be wor
enough for them, and ii without mediea
ting, why, so much the better.
This much for hard boiled eggs. Ma
half so bad as half boiled ones, aud te
tunes AS easy to digest asraw eggs, eve
~ egg nogg,
k4lu the second place, about what " ID
Blank said" We wish to caution th
reader not to believe 1.-THE Of the stat
ments quoted in that way. A set OF bus!
bodies like to tell what he said. The
misunderstood one-half, and invent ii
other. You know that there are fools
every profession. but you know, if you ste
to think for moment, that DIR. Blank
not one Of them. And then there is .
occasional old fool, generally female foe
who talks for living, who has had ever
thing that mortal ever had happen to b.
except the risks of becoming paren
who always had every disease more severe