Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-04-20
Hard-BOiled Eggs-A PROBES
SiOnaI View Of Their Indi-
gestibility, with other
Matters of Interest to
Hhn &fnnhonh

Wv
at will surely kill you if you eat
that bard-bolled egg DIR. - says
So" We heard woman say this to
her daughter at hotel the other day.
Ne made no audible comment, but
cou d not help thinking quietly how
many times we run the risk of life in
the same way, Aud when at the
supper table we saw this parent eat
ing sponge cake, which was uuexcep-
tIonabie We tired to tremble for her
rashness, and wondered # baking the
egg made it more digestible than
boiling. Aud then we wondered if
Dr. b ank ever said So and then we
remembered how many times we had
heard that DR. This and DR. That had
said one thing aud another thing
which we know they had never SAID :
and remembered the story of the threr
crows that somebody vomited,' and,
on the who'e, We thought that it is
net best trust much TO what some
body says DR. Blank said.
But, in the first place about hard
boiled eggs. We have seen dyspep-
ties who Suffered untold tormeuts
with almost every kind of food, and
tormeuts of which they did tell after
some medicines given for relief. No
liquid copld be taken withOus suffer
ing. Bread became a burning acid.
Meat and milk were solid aud liquid
fires. We have seeen these Samesuif
erers trying to avoid food and drink,
and even going to the enema syringe
for sustenance. And we have seen
their torrents pass away, and their
hunger relieved by living upon the
white Of eggs which had been boiled
in bubling water for thirty minutes.
At the cod Of a week We have gwen
the hard yoik of the egE with the
white. and upon this diet alone, with
out fiuiJ Of any kind, se have seen
them begin to gam faab and strength,
and refreshing sleep. After weeks OF
this treatment. they have been able,
With care begin upon other food
And what m5d,cjue?' says DR.
Doser. Why no medicine. We al
vised them so throw physic to the
dogs 10 avoid it as pOIson,' that
medicine had been partly to blame
tnf the Dyspepsia. But, Doctor This
and Thst think we injured the pro-
tessie1 by talking against medicine
Ne don't mean TO talk against medi-
cine. 1t is a very useful thing;
sometimes useful when we give it,
and sometimes. when We don't. Bat
we don't mean to use it when it is
not needed, and especially wien
something else will DO our work bet
ter. Physicians need not fear that
there will not be work enough for
them, aud if HithOut indicating, why,
so much the better.
Thus much for hard boiled eggs.
Not half So bad as half-boiled ones.
aud zen times as easy to digest as
raw eggs, even in egg>nogg.
In the second place, about what
,'Dr. Bank said We wish to
caution the reader not to believe
1.-THE OF the statements quoted in
that way. A set of busy bodies like
10 tell what he said. They misun-
dcrstand one half, and invent the
other. You know that there are
fools in every profession, but yo1
know, if you stop to think for a mo-
ment, that DR., Blank is not one of
them. Aud there is Rn occasional Old
fool, generally a female fool, who
talks fer living. who has had every
thing that mortal ever had happen to
her-eXcrpt the risk OF becoming a
parent who Rl~ays hsd every dis
ease mere severely than any one
whom DR.. Blank ever knew to have
it, and recover; aud who had every
sickness more than any one else
This is the person to VIII m you can
generally trace DR.. Blanks opinion.
-Correspondeace Of BoStoM Medical
and Surgical journal