MEDICAL USE OF EGGS.
For horns or scalds nothing is more soothing than the white of an egg, which may be poured over the wound. It is softer, as a varnish for a burn, than collodion, and being always at hand can be applied immediately. It is also more cooling than tho " sweet oil and cotton," which was formerly supposed to be the surest application to allay the smarting pain. It is the contact with the air which gives the extreme discomfort experienced from ordinary accidents of this kind, and everything which excludes air and prevents inflammation is the thing to be at once applied. The egg is considered one of the best remedies for dysentry. Beaten up slightly with or without sugar, and swallowed at n gulp, it tends by its emollient qualities to lessen the inflammation of the stomach and intestines, and by forming a transcient coating on these organs to enable nature to resume her healthful sway over the deceased body. Two, or at most three, eggs per day would be alt chat are required in ordinary cases, and since the egg is not merely medicine, but food as well/the lighter the diet otherwise, and the quieter tb~ patient is kent. the more certain and rapid is the reooyery l
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3141, 22 July 1881, Page 4
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