The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-30
YARD BOILED EGGS.

1T will surely kill you if you eat
sh-t hard boiled egg. Dr.
se-s so.n We heard a woman say this
2, her daughter at hotel the other
day We made no audible com neDt,
ant eou,d 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
eatinp sponge cake, which was unex-
ceptionable. We tried to tremble for
her rsshness. and wondered if baking
the egg made it more digestible than
boiling. And then we wondered II
DIR. Blank ever said so. And then we
remembered how many times we had
heard that DIR. this and DR.. that had
said one thing ard another thing,
which we know they had never SAID.
And we remembered the story OF the
three crows that somebody Yomlted.
And, on the whole, we thought That IL
is not best to trust much TO what some
BODY saws DR.. Blank said.
But in the first place, about bard
boiled eggs We have seen dyspeptcs
who suffered untold torments with al
most every kind of food, and tormen.s
of which thev did tell after some medl-
zines given for relief No liquid couid
he taken without suffering Bread be-
came burning aciJ Meat and milk
we're solid and liquid fires. We nave
seen these same sufferers trying toavold
food and drink, and even going to the
enema syringe for sustenante. And
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and their hunger relieved by living
spon the white of eggs which had been
boiled in bubLling water forthirty min
utes. At the end Of week we have
given the hard volk of the egg with the
white. and upon this diet alone, with
out 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 begin upon other food.
"And what medicine Z" says DR.
Doser. Why no medicine. We ad.
vised them to throw physic to the dogs;
to avoid it as poison; that medicine
had been partly to blame for the dys-
pen,ia. But. Doctor this and that
think we injured the profession by
talking against medicine We don't
mean to talk against medicine. 1T Is
a 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. Physicians need not fear that
there will not be work enough for them,
and if without medicating, why, so
much the better
Thus 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 the
reader not to believe tithe of the state
ments quoted in that way. a set of
bnsv-bodies 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, if YOU stop to think for mo-
ment that DR. Blank is not one ofthem.
And then there is an occasional old fool,
generally female fool, who talks for a
living. who has had everything that
mortal ever had happen to her-except
the risks of becoming a parent; who
always had every disease more severely
than any one whom DR.. Blank ever
knew to have it, ard recover and who
had every sickness more than any one
else This is the person to whom you
can generally trace DIR. Blanks opin-
ion-Cor. Boston Medical and Surgi-
cal Journal