Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — Value of the Egg in Sickness. [ARTICLE]

Value of the Egg in Sickness.

The value of egg albumen im food in certain (Hseased conditloiw is pointed out by Dr. C. E. Boynton. When fewer is present and appetite is nil, he-Kiiys, what we want Is an aseptic article of diet; the white of an egg, raw, served both as food and medicine. The way to give it is to drain off the nlbumen from an opening nlxmt half tin inch iy. diameter at tb.p rimtill end of an egg, the yolk remaining Inside the whell; add a Little stilt to this and direct the patlcmt to awffllow It. In typhoid fever the mode of feeding materially helps us in carrying out an antiseptic plan of treatment. Fur thermore, the allMimcn to a certain extent may antidote the toxines of the disease. Patients may nt first rolwl at the idea of eating a but the quickness with which It goes down without the yolk proves It to be less dlsagrceuldo than they snp|M»sed, and they are very ready to take a Hceond dose. —Pacific Medical Journal.