2G8 SALUTARY EFFECTS OF A FISH DIET. 



" The medicinal effects of cod-liver oil, in mitigating, 

 if not in curing, pulmonary consumption, appear to be 

 well established. And as this oil contains iodine, the 

 analogy seems to strengthen the inference, that sea- 

 fish generally may be alike beneficial. 



" The inference regarding the salutary effects of fish 

 depending on the presence of iodine, in the prevention 

 of tubercular disease, might be extended to some 

 other diseases, especially to that formidable malady 

 goitre, the mitigation or cure of which has, in so 

 many instances, been effected by iodine ; and which, 

 so far as I am aware, is entirely unknown amongst 

 the inhabitants of sea-ports and sea-coasts, who, from 

 their situation, cannot fail to make more or less use of 

 fish." 



The muscle, or flesh of fish, as before observed, is 

 easy of digestion, and neither loads the stomach nor 

 the system. 



Two physicians, of great experience, at the west end 

 of London, find their advantage in taking fish only, at 

 dinner, almost daily. 



A surgeon in extensive practice at the West End, 

 tells me, that whenever he foresees he shall have a 

 hard day's work, and be obliged to go out in the even- 

 ing, he arranges for an early dinner of fish, and finds 

 that he gets through a hard day with imich more 

 ease to himself than if he had taken a heavy dinner of 

 meat. 



A case of local inflammation, which resisted all the 

 usual means, gave way entirely after persevering in a fish 

 diet for nine weeks, and wholly abstaining from meat. 



