animal
Chicken
Chicken as an animal people have named and used. Nourishment, Fertility, Prosperity — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Chicken is used in Medicine.
Pliny’s Natural History treats the domestic fowl among birds with eggs, fat, and other products entering Roman pharmacological speech. A named chicken in that encyclopedia, not a cockfight dump alone and not a zodiac dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
used in · sourced · documented
Chicken is associated with Tea.
In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, when chicken-tea is boiled down one-half, with the addition of a little parsley or celery and the yolk of an egg, it forms a soup much relished by the convalescent — chicken supplies that tea.
from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)
associated with · sourced · documented
Egg is historically related to Chicken.
Pliny’s Natural History treats hens’ eggs among ordinary animal foods and farm stock. A named egg beside chicken as the common laying bird, not world-egg as cosmogony.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
historically related to · sourced · documented
sources
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- Medical Lexicon · Robley Dunglison
Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon (Dictionary of Medical Science).