The statement of ancient philosophers that the Babylonians cooked their eggs by whirling them rapidly in slings has been rediculed, but no one until recently put the matter to a practical test. In 3, paper read the other day before the Royal Society, the writer pointed out that actual experiment had proved that exactly the same chemical changes are produced in the egg when ii is coagulated mechanically by rapid movement as when it is coagulated by heat, and that there is nothing improbable in the statement about the Babylonians. Only one instance is recorded of a vulture hatching out an egg in the London Zoo. -
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1923, Page 22
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