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Fish as food, or the reputed origin of disease 



On a fish diet — Deficiency of supply of animal food (o natives of India — 

 Various estimations in which fish is held by the different races — 

 General effects of a fish diet — Does such affect the procreative 

 powers — Fish diet more suited than that of mammals to natives 

 of the East — Large fish more valuable weight for weight than small 

 ones — Fish as food may set up poisonous symptoms due to several 

 causes — Spiny rayed fish as food, those having accessory breathing 

 organs most esteemed by convalescents— Scaleless fish as food — ■ 

 Carps in hilly districts may set up deleterious effects — Herring famih r , 

 members of it may be poisonous — Eels as food — Scleroderini as food, 

 or poisonous — Cartilaginous fishes as food — Diseases attributed to 

 a fish diet — Skiu diseases and scurvy — Wounds from fish spines, 

 especially of Siluroids — Wounds from spiny rays of fishes. 



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Fresh-water fishes of India 



What they consist of — Definitions of sub-classes, orders, 

 genera, and species of fresh 



Order Acanthopkrygii, T 

 Family Percidae 



„ Pristipornatidae 



„ Sciaenidae 



„ Squamipinnes 



„ Carangidae 



„ Mugilidae 



„ Gobiidae 



„ Nandidae 



„ Labyrinthici . 



„ Ophiocephalidae 



„ Rhynchobdellid;y 



„ Chromides 



Order Anacanthini 

 Family Pleuronectidae 



Order Physostomi 

 Family Siluridae 



Seombresocidas 



Cj'prinodontidae 



Cyprinidae 



Clupeidae 



Notopteridoe . 



Symbranchidas 



M uraenidaj 



Order Lophobranchii . 

 Family Syngnathidae . 



Order Plectognathi 

 Family Gymnodoutidae 



water fishes of Ind 



families, 

 ia and Burma. 



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