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gradually about half a tumblerful of boiling water, and lastly 
add from one to two tablespoonfuls of whisky. This is excel- 
lent for a catarrhal chill. 
The eggs of those birds whose young are hatched without 
feathers, for example, plovers, exhibit when boiled a translucent 
albuminous white, which is not opaque like that of the fowl’s 
egg under similar conditions. Moreover, the proportion of 
yellow yolk in the eggs of wild birds is considerably larger than 
in those of domesticated ones, adding thereby to the ratio of 
nutritive elements. But what are usually sold by poulterers as 
plover’s eggs are those of the common lapwing (Vanellus cristatus). 
The Plover (Charadius) is thought to have derived its name 
from the Latin pluvia, rain, because of its fondness for being on 
the wing in rainy weather. Not that every Plover’s egg that 
comes now into the market would have become a Plover in due 
course if allowed to be hatched out. ‘“ All that glitters is not 
gold,” and every nice-looking, dark speckled egg that reposes in 
a mossy basket, and is sold for ninepence, or a shilling, in the 
West-end of London, has not owned a Plover for its mother. The 
dwellers round the Norfolk Broads could, and they would, tell 
something about these so-called Plover’s eggs. “ Furriers,” said 
Dr. King Chambers, “ are in the habit of passing off tabby cats’ 
skins as Japanese lynx, and hundreds of the best ‘ Plover’s 
eggs’ are laid by gulls on the East coast.” Sir Lewis Watson, 
Baron of Rockingham, when at his newly purchased manor of 
Wilsford, Lincolnshire (1641), received the following delightful 
letter from his wife—-‘‘To my loueing husband Sir Lewis 
Watson, at Wilsford,’ ‘‘Sweetheart, I thanke you for your 
Plouar, the which are very great daynties to us indeede—for 
the sweet sauce which is your kindnes in sending them, and 
will procure us doctar diet, and doctar meoriman (merryman) 
at the eating of them. Writing to you so lately I have no 
more to say now, but that I will pray for your good helth, 
and remayne, your ever loueing wife, Eleanor Watson. Rock- 
ingham, November 23. I have given bearer only Is.” 
It is an established fact that patients have been cured of 
obstinate obstructive jaundice by taking a raw egg on one or 
more mornings while fasting. Dr. Paris tells us that a specially 
ardent oil may be extracted from the yolks alone of hard- 
boiled eggs when roasted piecemeal in a frying pan until this 
oil begins to exude, and then pressed hard. Old eggs furnish 
