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fish remain in the stomach undigested. The Arabian 

 writer on the subject, Haly Abbas, does little more than 

 make an abridgment from Galen. 



The brine of pickled fish was considered a powerful 

 calefacient and desiccative, and was externally applied to 

 putrid ulcers, and administered as an injection in dysentery 

 and ischiatic diseases. (Geopon., xx, 46 ; Pliny, Hist. 

 Nat. xxxi, 43 ; Athenaeus, Deipnos. 2 ; and Apicius, c. 7.) 

 Sauce prepared by macerating the intestines of the tunny 

 fish was particularly esteemed; and Caelius Aurelianus 

 praises a sauce made in the same manner from the salurus. 

 Dioscorides recommends the sauce of pickled fish as a 

 cataplasm to persons bitten by mad dogs, and as an 

 injection in sciatica (lib. ii, 34). The same thing is 

 mentioned by the Arabian physicians, Avicenna and 

 Serapion ; and Ae'tius, Celsus, and Hippocrates speak on 

 the subject in the same decided manner. 



The flesh of the legless lobster, when triturated and 

 drunk with the root of bryony, kills and eradicates lurn- 

 brici. Dioscorides prescribes the ashes of the river-crab 

 in cases of hydrophobia, and as an application in fissures 

 in the feet and arms, chilblains, and cancers. He likewise 

 says it is an antidote against the bite of all venomous 

 animals. Galen treats fully of the same thing for hydro- 

 phobia (book 5). Avicenna and Ehases prescribe the flesh 

 of the river-crab, mixed with milk, as highly beneficial 

 in cases of consumption. 



Celsus prescribes the soup of muscles as an excellent 



