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eels ; even dolphins and porpoises, which they caught by 

 net or hook. A sea-fisher was an officer in the household 

 of Edward. III. 5 



Johannes de Mediolanus, or John of Milan, wrote 

 a work in 1099, called the Regimen Sanitates Salerni, 

 translated by Dr. Holland, in which we have the following 

 advice about fish. 



" The fish of soft and biggest body take, 

 If hardened little, do not them forsake, 

 Pike, perch, and sole are known for daintie fish, 

 The whiting also is a courtly dish : 

 Tench, gurnard, and a well-grown plaice in May, 

 Carp, rochet, trout, these are good meat I say, 

 Among our fish the pike is king of all, 

 In water none is more tyrannical. 

 Who knows not physic, should be nice and choice 

 In eating eeles, because they hurt the voice ; 

 Both eeles and cheese, without good store of wine 

 Well drunk with them, offends at any time." 



Among the Eastern nations it is a common medical 

 prescription to take the eggs of scates, after being held 

 over burning coals, and inhaled by the mouth and nostrils, 

 as an infallible remedy for an intermittent fever. Buffon. 



Diacles, the Greek physician, considered the flesh of the 

 perch as an excellent restorative to convalescents of all 

 kinds . Atlienaus. 



The conger-eel was offered to Neptune and his divine 

 colleagues, as being capable of bestowing immortality on 

 5 Turner's Anglo-Saxons. 



