Eclaircissement came immediately after taking a single
spoonful of egg. I fell into such an alarming state that the
doctor was sent for. The effect seems to have been just the same
that it produces upon my daughter now,--something that suggested
brain-congestion and convulsions. From time to time, as a boy and
a young man, I have eaten an egg by way of trying it again, but
always with the same result--a feeling that I had been poisoned;
and yet all the while I liked eggs. Then I never touched them for
years. Later I tried again, and I find the ill-effects are
gradually wearing off. With my daughter it is different; she, I
think, becomes more susceptible as time goes on, and the effect
upon her is more violent than in my case at any time. Sometimes
an egg has been put with coffee unknown to her, and she has been
seen immediately afterward with her face alarmingly changed--eyes
swollen and wild, the face crimson, the look of apoplexy. This is
her own account: 'An egg in any form causes within a few minutes
great uneasiness and restlessness, the throat becomes contracted
and painful, the face crimson, and the veins swollen. These
symptoms have been so severe as to suggest that serious
consequences might follow.
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