' To this I may add that in her
experience and my own, the newer the egg, the worse the
consequences."
Hutchinson speaks of a Member of Parliament who had an
idiosyncrasy as regards parsley. After the ingestion of this herb
in food he always had alarming attacks of sickness and pain in
the abdomen, attended by swelling of the tongue and lips and
lividity of the face. This same man could not take the smallest
quantity of honey, and certain kinds of fruit always poisoned
him. There was a collection of instances of idiosyncrasy in the
British Medical Journal, 1859, which will be briefly given in the
following lines: One patient could not eat rice in any shape
without extreme distress. From the description given of his
symptoms, spasmodic asthma seemed to be the cause of his
discomfort. On one occasion when at a dinner-party he felt the
symptoms of rice-poisoning come on, and, although he had partaken
of no dish ostensibly containing rice, was, as usual, obliged to
retire from the table. Upon investigation it appeared that some
white soup with which he had commenced his meal had been
thickened with ground rice. As in the preceding case there was
another gentleman who could not eat rice without a sense of
suffocation.
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