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Fish as food, or the reputed origin of disease 



On a fisli diet — Deficiency ofsupiil^' of animal food (o natives of India — 

 Various estimations in which lish is held by the dilTeient races- 

 General cffecis 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 d>ic to several 

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

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

 Carps in hilly districts may set up deleterious eficcfs — Herring family, 

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

 or poisonous — Carlilnginous fishes as food — Diseases attributed to 

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

 especially of Siluroids — Wounds from spiny rays of fishes. 



Fresh-water Jishes of India 



What they consist of — Definitions of 

 genera, and species of fresh-water fisli 



Order AeantJiopterygii , T 

 Family Percida! 



„ Prislipomatidre 



„ Sclajnida; 



„ Squamipinnes 



„ CarangidoJ 



„ Mugilidje 



„ GobiidsE 



„ Nandida; 



„ LabyrinthicI . 



„ OphiocephalidiB 



„ Rhynchobdellidie 



„ Chromides 



Order Anacanthini 

 Family Pleuronectida; 



Order Fhysostomi 

 Family Siluridse 



Scombresocidse 



Cyprinodontidse 



Cyprinidse 



Clupeida; 



Notopterldre . 



Symbranchidte 



MurEenidaj 



Order Lophotiranrhii . 

 Family Syngnathida; , 



Order Plectognalhi 

 Familj' Uyranodontidre 



sub-classes, orders, families, 

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