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Fish as food, or the reputed origin of disease 



On a fish diet Deficiency of supply of animal food to 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 family, 

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

 or poisonous Cartilaginous 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 fishes of India ..... 



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

 genera, and species of fresh-water fishes of India and Burma. 



Order Acanthopterygii, T ..... 



Family Percidse ... . . 



Pristipornatidse 



Scisenidse ...... 



Squamipinnes . . . 



Carangida3 ...... 



Mugilidse ...... 



Gobiidae ...... 



Nandidse ...... 



Labyrinthici ...... 



Ophiocephalida3 . 



Bhynchobdellidae , 



Chromides 



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Order Anacanthini 

 Family Pleuronectidse 



Order Physostomi 

 Family Siluridse 

 Scombresocidse 

 Cyprinodontidee 

 Cyprinidse 

 Clupeidae 

 Notopteridae . 

 Symbranchidse 

 Mursenidse 



Order Lophobranchii . 

 Tamil}' Syngnathidse , 



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Order Plectognathi 

 Family Gymnodontidae 



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