The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-09-07
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- better known species hav-
tl! sl ing been, at one time or
t.nOU.,I, lid as n cure for the cause
of some ailment. These superstitions
are not confined to one country alone,
but seem to spread all over the world,
and are common from the earliest
ages. \ few of these traditions are
founded on fact but the great major
| ity are fiction pure and simple.
The common tench has been termed |
the fishes physician" and Camden,
in his Britannia, states that he had |
seen the bellies of pixies closed by the |
touch of the tench and by their glu-
tinous slime perfectly healed up. At
one time archaeological writer's be-
lieved that pike, perch and cells knew
of this propensity of the tench and
spared it in consequence.
In olden times it used to be applied
to the palms of the hands and feet in
order to absorb fever, or laid upon the
liver in case of jaundice, when the
fish, it was asserted, became yellow
and retained the disease. 1t was to be
buried at once after being removed.
In case of q nervous headache the fish
would be tied to the temples, while for
sore eyes it was to be wound around
the neck. 1t would stop hemorrhaGe
and was said to be etlicacious in OBJ
stinate cases of worms.
In Russia the small miller's thumb
(cottus gobio) is employed as charm
against fevers. In the time OF Galen
the flesh of the electric fishes was re-
commeded to, be eaten by epileptic
persons. who were likewise to have
shocks from the living fish applied TO
their heads.
Even prior to this DESCRIBES had
recommended its external application
for pains in the head, while in more
recent times persons suffering from
govt were advised to place the af-
fected part on one of these fishes and
keep 1t there until the numbness ex-
] tended rs high as the knee. In Abys-
sinia fever was cured with an electric
\, eel, while the tetroden was said to be
excellent in lung affections.
The Welsh consider the oil from the
liver of the sting ray to be good for
burns and other wounds, while the
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the king of behring's (chimaera mon
trosa) for treating some disorders of
the eyes. The latter is also said to be
Z good for all wounds and bruises.
u The oil of the turbot is considered n
good external remedy for swellings,
u while the gall Is said to be excellent
for affections of the eyes. The oil
from the liver of many fishes is used
d incidentally, the more notable ex'
II amples being the cod and the colo.
II chan. or candlefish, of the Pacific
coast.
The eggs of the angelfish were AT
one time dried and used incidentally
y while its skin was also dried, and
. when powdered, prescribed for itch
., and other skin diseases When the
u flesh of the six-gilled or Mediterranean
! shark is eaten, it is said to act as Q
:, strong purgative. Sharks teeth
rubbed on the gums were said TO hell
W. children speedily through the trying
10 teething period, while the liver of the
W muroena cured poisonous bites.
Il The lamprey, while having an III
&c omened reputation, was said to remove
" smallpox scars when its fat was ap
III piled to them. That rubbing the par
'e affected with a red herring will cur'
III rheumatism is still positively asserted
W. by the old fishermen of England, whil
u in Scotland toothache can be got rit
of by carrying about person a piec
Of dogfsh, the fish being returned aliv
,o to the water after the incision is made
~ A quite general tradition is tina
.. whooping cough can be cured by put
~ ting a live fish into n child's mouth
After being used, the fish must b
al thrown back into the water alive
90 Cancer could be cured by tying a era
a. to the affected part.
% Eels We're favOrite subjects with tn
ot old physicians. Hippocrates forbad
10 their use as food in tables and dis
- eased spleen, while Galen prescribe
80 them as a medicine in nephrltlc con
80 plants, where the gluten might
No thought to convert grale into stone.
We Pliny claimed their use as food in
g.. paired the singing voice, while the
80 cleared choleric of phlegmatic humor
- out of the system, likewise the intil
"a mites of the spleen. The monks G
ha Salerno did not like them, and con
~ planned "that to live on cells is a sur
mo- recipe for spelling the voice"
% In an old manuscript of the fou
" teenth century persons who desire
avoid collie are recommended to max
ch girdle of the skin of an eel, and s
la long as this is worn around the wal'
tut the wearer IS safe. In Scotland III
fresh skin of an eel was tied aroun
i'd, the leg is cases Of cramp and sprail
he and It is said that even to this da
ed many Scottish women wear the eel
DID skin as a garter.
Use For persons suffering from wea
nut nerves the old English remedy VIZ
ho to mix NORWOOD root, gall Of trou
me brain of pike and oil of eel togeth,
over q hot fire and take this mixtul