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Show GOOD WORD FOR fHE OYSTER London Lancet, Always Pessimistic, Comes Forward With a Surly Meed of Praise. When the Lancet, representative of the medical profession of Qreat Britain, says anything good about anything, any-thing, it Is listened to with emotloM of mlncfed surprise and reaeeot Some one has remarked that every time he pleked up the Lancet ha saa-oovered saa-oovered be was doing something rJsjki along, or taking something Vut. was surely killing him. It has a good wars for the oyster Just at the Usee vhaa that apparently innocuous efleaae Is exoltlng the somtiny of oar aisravs feverish advisers, the aaoterlnlasls. This distinguished, if asaally alansast, authority oaokares that the oyster is a "tonic of the first order, sad a earn-plete earn-plete food, most baaedesei to weakened weak-ened patients and those la wheat appetite la deficient." Clinical resales of a most favorable nature are reported re-ported where oysters are given to persons snfferiog from tuberculosis. It oysters aro Indicated for ths diet of persons In the stato described, they must be wholesome for the rest of us There was never any doubt about this, of courso, beforo nervous bacteriologists bac-teriologists sought to fill us full oi fear Instead of oystors. IIu was a brave man who first ate one raw, according to the phllosophor of the breakfast table; nnd now the bacteriologists bac-teriologists challenge our courage. The Lancet's commendation should help to sustain timid souls at this crisis. Provldencn Tnurnal. |