The Digestibility and Utilization of Egg

In 1898 Steinitz noted that the ingestion of raw egg-white by dogs was followed by vomiting and diarrhea. This interesting observation appears to have passed almost unnoticed, although no other native proteins are known to give rise to such digestive disorders. When these same facts were observed by Mendel and Lewis in 1913, their possible bearing on the wide spread use of raw eggs in various diets, especially by the sick, prompted the following study.