EGGS AS FOOD. 95 
Experiments of later date prove that an egg 
is usually digested sooner than a potato and quite 
as soon as beef or mutton. 
Hard-boiled eggs require 3 hours 30 minutes 
Soft 66 66 66 3 66 
Fried 66 66 3 66 30 66 
Roasted ee reek iy ris Fear ine 
Raw 66 66 a 66 
Raw (beaten) “ Lali Sei anlar: 3 aaa 
That life can be sustained by so little nourish- 
ment as a single egg daily is proved by the 
experience of a German scholar who took refuge 
from a hostile enemy in a loft. A hen laid her 
daily egg for two weeks, and this was all his 
food, yet when the army had gone he had strength 
to reach home. 
A similar story is told of a refugee from the 
massacre of St. Bartholomew. 
Eggs are claimed to be promoters of longevity. 
Of the Duke of Newcastle, in the reign of 
