The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-08

u.rp.BouEp EGGs-A PROFESSIONAL
VItw OF THgR iNDlGEsTIBILiTY, WITH OTAEH
Matters OF INTEREST TO THE SToAAcH.--
at will surely Kill you If you eat that
hard. boiled egg. DR.. - says So" we
heard a woman say this 10 her daughter at 8
hotel the other DAY. We made no audib'e
comment, but could not help thinking
quietly how many times we run the risk OF
life in the same way. And when at the
supper.table we saw this parent eatihg
sponee.cake, which was uneXceptionasle,
ye Tried to tremb!e for her rashness, ana
wondered If baking the egg made 1t more
disestible than boiling. And then We won
dcred if Or. Blauk ever said so; ana then
we remembered how many times we PAD
heard that DIR. 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
ycmi,ed: and, on the whole, we thought
that it is cot best TO trust much 10 what
somebody says DR.. Blank said.
But, in the first place, about hard.bolIed
eggs. We have seen dyspeptics who suffered
untold tormepts with almost every KIND OF
food. and torments of which they did tell
after some medicines given forrelef. NO
fouid could be taken Without sulferlDg'
Bread became burning acid. Meat ana
milk were solid and liquid fires. We have
seen these same sufferers trying TO avoid food
and drink. and even going to the enema sy'
ripge for sustenance. And We nave seen
their tormenis pass away, and their hunger
relieved by living upon the white Of eggs
which had been boiled in bubblipg 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 fish and strength, and refreshing
sleep. After weeks Of this treatment, they
have beer able, with care, TO bcgin upon
other food.
And What mcdIcinc:" says DR.. Doser.
Why. no medicine. We advised them to
throw pbysic to the dogs; to avoid it as poi
son: that medicine bad been partly to blame
for The dyspepsia. But, Doctor This and
That think we injured the profession b.
talking against medicine. Wedon't mean 10
talk against medicine. IL is very usefu'
thing: sometimes useful when we give II,
aud sometimes when we don't. But we
don't mean 10 use il when 1t Is not needed,
and especially when something else will do
our work better. Physicians need not fear
that there will not be work enough for
them. ord if without mcdicating, why, SO
m! ch the better.
Thus much Tor hard-boied eggs. Not half
60 bad as hal!-DOiIed ores, and ten times aS
cas- 20 digest a. raw eggs, even IN egg poS@.
in The second place, about What "Dr.
Btnuk sad" We wish 10 caution the read
tr nVt 10 believe 1 1.-THE Of the statements
oun.,d 10 that way. A set of busy-hodie>
ike 10 eil what he said. They misundcr-
sjal 4 orr.haif and invent the other, You
know that there are fools In every profession,
bu, YOU know, il YOU stop to think Tor
moment, that DR.. Blank is not one Of them.
Aud then there Is IN occasional old fool, gen.
cr4ll, female tool, who talks for a living,
who has had everything that mortal ever had
happen TO her- eXcep, the risks of becoming
a parent who always had every disease more
severely rLbn any one whom DIR. Blank ever
knew /" nave il, and recover; and who had
every Sickness more than any one else. This
is The person TO whom you can generally
trace Or. Banks OPINION Correspondence
Of Bos'cn Medical and Surgical Journal.