Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-04-17
HARD BOILED EGGS.
A Professional View Of'TIaeir
0igcssibiTify. with Other
Matters Of Interest to tire
Stomach.

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Digcssibiaify. with Other
Matters of Interest TO the
Stomach.
ut will surely kill you If you
eat that hard boiled egg. Dr.
says so.n We heard a woman say
this to her daughter at q hotel the
other day. We made no audible
comment, but could not help
thinking quietly how many times
we run the risk oflife In the same
way And when at the supper
table, we saw this parent eating
sponge cake. which was unexcep-
tionable, we tried 10 trcmble for
her rashness, and wondered II bak
inc the eggs made 1t more diges-
tihln than boiling. And then we
wondered Ii DR.. Blank eversaid SO.
And then We remembered how
many times we had heard that DR..
this and DIR that had said one thing
another time, which we know
they had never said. And we re-
member the tory of the three
crows thar 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
iyspeptics who suffered untold
torments with almost cry kind
il food, and torments of which
they did tell after some medicines
given for relief. No liquid could
be taken without suffering, Bread
become burning acid. Meat and
milk We're solid and liquid fires.
We have seen these same sufferers
trying,to avoid food and drink land
even going to the enema syringe
for sustenar@e. And we have seen
their torments pass away, aud their
hunger relieved by living upon the
white Of eggs which had been boil
ed in bubbling water for thirty
minutes. At the end OF u week we
have given the hard yelk of the
eggs with the white, and upoa this
diet alone, without fluid Of any
kind, we have SEAN them begin to
gain flesh, and strength, and re-
freshing sleep. After weeks Of this
treatment. they have been able,
with care, to begin upon other
food.
"And what nedicine?n says Dir.
Do5er. Why, no medicine. We
advised them to throw physic to
the dogs; to avoid it al poison;
that medicine had been partly to
blame for the dyspepsia. But,
Doctor This and That think we i'm
jured the profession by talking
against medicine. We don't mean
to talk against medicine. 1t is
very useful thing; sometimes USE
ful when we give it, and some
time when we don't. But we
don't mean to use it, when 1t is
not needed, and especially when
something else will do onr work
better. Physicians need not fear
that there will not be work enough
for them, and If without medical
ing, 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-n0g.
In the second place, about what
CDR. Blank said" We wish to
caution the reader not to believed
1.-THE of the statements quoted in
that way. A set of busy-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 moment, that DR.. Blank is
not one of them. And then there
is an occasional old fool, generally
a female fool, who talks for a liv-
ing, who has had everything that
mortal ever had happen to her
except the risks Of becoming q
parent; who always had every
disease more severely than any
one whom DR.. Blank ever knew
to have it, and recover; and whos
had every sickness more than any
one else. This As the person to
whom you can generally trace
DR.. Blanks opinion, - C0yTespon-
deucs of Boston MedicUl and SIR
1icul Journal,