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Remarks. — The white of a fresh egg beaten with 1 table-spoonful of white sugar, then a table-spoonful of best brandy added and again beaten, was fed to me by a Methodist clergyman—a special friend—in tea-spoonful doses, which sustained me 2 or 3 days, and, no doubt, saved my life, when even the consulting
physician declared it would send the disease to the brain and soon destroy me. The occasion for its use arose from typhoid pneumonia of the right lung — the exhausting discharges from the bowels and the change of position necessary producing such sinking spells that life must have soon given out. The attending physician had determined to administer the brandy; but the consulting one (a much older man, and hence more, set in the "old fogy" idea that brandy would excite inflammation of the brain) was contending with him in the parlor, as I was afterwards informed, that it would not do; when the clergyman came in, as he was in the habit of doing in my sickness, and heard their argument, he came in to see my condition; as soon as he saw my exhaustion—he having been raised from the same condition by a physician in another city, went back to the doctors and said: " I will take the responsibility of this case to-day, " thus agreeing with the advance in science, as shown by the younger physician; he did as above indicated, personally attending to me all that day and night till 5 o'clock in the morning; pronouncing the danger past, he called my deal wife (since passed to the "better land"), whom he had compelled, as it were, to lie down for a few hours, which she had not before done for several days and nights (getting all her rest and sleep in a chair, notwithstanding there was plenty of help, through her anxiety for me—such is a true woman's love). The brandy was truly the hinge on which the case turned back to life, when scarcely a hope was entertained that such could be the result. Why should not this, then, or some other of these punches, eggnogs, etc., save others when in such extremely weak conditions? If I did not so believe, I would certainly not take such pains and so much space to explain and recommend them. But do not understand me as recommending these stimulating drinks, only in these exhausting diseases, where the diffusive as well as the stimulating power of the spirit is demanded to aid the strength and stimulate the recuperative powers of nature to rally to the rescue. My reasons for opposing stimulation generally, is more fully shown in the remarks following '' Eggnog. "
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