In last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Harry Blotner, young Boston stomach specialist, published the first proof that a heavy drinker does not digest his food. Anyone can repeat in his kitchen or parlor the experiment by which Dr. Blotner arrived at his conclusion.
Material: one hard-boiled egg, one jigger of any alcoholic liquor, small quantities of trypsin and pancreatin, digestive enzymes present in stomach juice and procurable in any drugstore.
Method: dilute the enzymes with a small quantity of plain water, pour in two glasses. Drop pieces of the hard-boiled...
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