Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1875 — The Efficacy of Bread Pills. [ARTICLE]

The Efficacy of Bread Pills.

In his address before the graduating class of the Albany Medical College the other day ex-Gov. Hoffman related this incident: “I would not say anything to lower.the tone of your professional or personal morals, but I fancy there is a certain kind of deception which is not sin. I was sitting at dinner once with an esteemed country medical friend, and noticed him rolling in his fingers pills from the bread at his side. I asked his purpose, and. he replied that with that simple remedy he bad worked a cure in the case of a lady who had consulted in vain some of the most celebrated physicians in the State; that she had a slight relapse and had sent to him for some of the pills which he had given before; He did not seem to think he was doing a very wicked thing | nor did it strike me that he was. I suppose he would have been a little flustered if his patient had asked him to write out the prescription. This he knew she would not do, She had faith in him, and in no one else, and would have trusted no one else to make up the pills.” —Recipe for Breakfast Cake.—Take two and a half quarts of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuis of cream tartar, one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of lard, one quart of warm water; knead quick, roll thin and bake in a shallow pan in a quick oven. Serve hot, with butter. Thick Milk.—Beat up a newlaid egg pour on it half a pint of boiling milk sweetened to taste, and flavored with lemon-pee nutmeg or vanilla. Servo, cold in a g.ass. *