Year: 1875

Cor. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal


1t will surely kill you il you eat that
hard boiled egg. DR.. .--- says so :"
We heard a mamma say this to her
daughter at hotel the other day. We
made no audible 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 eating sponge-cake, which
was unexceptionable, we tried to trem-
BILE for her rashness, and wondered if
baking the egg made it more digestibIe
than boiling. And then we wondered if
DR. Blank ever said So And then we
remembered how many times we had
heard that DR.. this and DR.. that had said
one thing and another thing, which we
knew they had never said. And we re.
membered the story OF three crows that
somebody vomited And, on the whole,
we thought that it is not best to trust
much to what somebody says DR.. 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 medicines
given for relief. No liquid could be ia
ken without suffering. Bread became a
burning acid. Meat and 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-
rlnge for sustenance. And we have seen
their torments pass away, and their hun
ger relieved by living upon. the whites of
eggs which had been boiled in bubbling
water for thirty minutes At the end of
a 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 flesh and
strength, and refreshing sleep. After
weeks Of this treatment, they have been
able, with care, to begin upon other
food


And what medicine2' says DR..
Doser. Why, no medicine. We ad-
vsed them to throw physic to the dogs;
to avoid it as poison; that medicine had
been partly to blame for the dyspepsia.
Bat, Doctor this and that think we in.
jured the profession by talking against
medicine. We don't mean to talk
against medicine. 1t is 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 mediea-
ting, so much the better.


Thus much for hard boiled eggs. Not
half so bad as half-boiled ones, and ten
{ mes as easy to digest as raw eggs, even
in egg-nog. .NnNf #fWw


In the second place, about what "Dr.
Blank said. We wish to caution the
reader not to believe tithe Of the state
mehts quoted in that way, A set of
busy-bodies like to tell what he said.
They misunderstood one-half, aud invent
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, gen
orally female fool, who talks for u liv-
ing, 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,
and recover; and who had every sickness
more than any one else. This is the
person to whom you can generally trace
DR.. Blanks opinion.