50 A I'APEfi OX EGGS, 



Again, after the lapse of more than a thousand years, we find 

 in the Latin medical poem, '' Kegimen sanitatis Salernitanum,"* 

 "vrritten in the twelfth centmy, the following lines relative to 

 eggs as articles of diet : 



" Ova receutia, viiia rubentia, pinguia jura 

 Cum simila piu-a, naturae sunt valitura." ^ 



Also 

 And 



'• Si sumas ovum moUe sit atque novum." 



" Singula post ova pocula sumc nova." 

 The old English translation of the above-mentioned poem, 

 called ''The Englishman's Docter," 1607, gives the following 

 free versions of these lines : 



"Egges newly laid are nutritiue to eat. 

 And rosted reare are easie to digest." 



"The priest's rule is (a Priest's rule sliold be true), 

 Those Egges are best, are long and white and new, 

 Remember eating new laid Egges and soft, 

 For every Egge you eat you drink as oft." 



" If Egges you cat they must be new and soft." 



Andrewe Boorde, ''of Physycke Doctour," in his Compendy- 

 ous Dyetary of Helth,f 1542-47, also gives us the following in- 

 formation : 



" % The xiij Chapitre treateth of whyt 

 meat, as of egges, butter, chesc, 

 mylke, crayme &c. 



In England there is no egges used to be eaten but lien-egges ; 

 wherfore I wyl fyi'stc wryte and pertract of hen-egges. The 

 yolkes of hen-egges be cordyalles, for it is temporatly hote. The 

 whytc of an egge is \*iscus and colde and starke of digestyon, and 



*' I Imve always fouml the .lir-cavity at the large end of the epg, never at the small end, 

 and have t'eo'TiUly oliHcrve<l that the head of the chliken in hateliin^' is near the largo 

 cn<l, l>nt wlu'llicr the alr-eavity has aiiythin;: to do with that I ilo not know." 



If we apply the tont^uc llmt to one end and then to the otiier, we distinguish the posi- 

 tion of the air-cavity hy the scnxation of warmth. 



• Rfjinifn Sanitafu Salernitanum, a poem on the Preservation of Health, In rhyming 

 I,atln verse, addressed hy the School of Salerno to Kohert of Normandy, son of William 

 tlic C<)nt|ueri>r, with an ancient translation; and an Introduction and NotcA, by Sir 

 Alexander Croke, D.C.L , and F.A S., Oxford. U. A. Talhoya, 1830. 



f Cumpcndyous R«gymcnt of a Dyetary of Ilelth, made in Mountpyllier, compylcd l>y 

 Andrewe lloord. of Phyttyoke Doctour. I'ublitlicd hy Pearly Knglish Text See., edited 

 hy F. J Kurnivall, M.A.. 1870, p. »&4. 



