The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-14


 burbot is cohsidered a good external remedy for sivellings. while the gall is said to be excellent for affections Of the eyes. The oil from the liver of many fishes is usef incidentally, the more mo- table examples being the cod and the eoloehan, qk candlefish, of the Pacific coast
 The eggs pf the angelfisli were at one time dried and used incidentally, while it's skin wasl also dried, and when pow dered prescribed for itch and other skin diseases. When the flesh of the six gilled or Mediterranean shark is eaten it is said to act as "a strong purgative
 Sharks teeth rubbed on the gums were said to help children speedily through the trying teething period. while the liv- CT of the Muroena cured poisonous bites. The lamprey, while having an ill., i omened reputation, was ssaid to remove smallpox scars when it's fat was ap- piled to them. That rubbing the part affected with red herring will cure rheumatism is still positively asserted by the old fishermen of England. while in Scotland toothache can be got rid of l by carrying about the person a piece of 6ogfish. the fish being returned alive to ] the water after the excision is made A quite general tradition is that whooping cough can be cured by putting live 1 fish into the child's mouth. After being used the fish must be thrown back into the water alive. Cancer could be cured by tying a crab to the affected part.
 Eels were favorite subjects with the old physicians Hippocrates forbade
 their use as food in tabes and diseasesd spleen. while Galen prescribed them as medicine in nephritic complaints, where the gluten might be thought to concrete gravel into stone. Pliny
 claimed that their use as food impaired Ithe singing voice, while they cleared choleric or phlemmatic humours out of the system, likewise the infirmities of the spleen. The monks of Salerno did not like then and complained that to
 live on cells is a sure recipe for spelling the voice."
 l In an old manuscript of the fourteenth | century persons who desire to avoid col-
 ic are recommended to make girdle of
 the skin of an eel, and so long as this is
 worn around the waist the wearer is lsafe. In Scotland the fresh skin of an leel was tied around the leg in cases of cramp and sprain, and it is said that even to this day many Scottish women
 wear the cells skin as garter. For persons sufferng from weak nerves the
 old English remedy was to mix worm
 wood root, gall of trout, brain of pike
 and oil of eel together over hot fire, and take this mixture in doses of three spoonfuls at time. A powder made from the cells liver was considered a cure for deafness, while in certain parts lof England fever was cured by the ap- plication of an eel Gesner. the natu- ralist, suggested to the old-time doctors that they recommend patients suffering
 from constipation to swallow small eels.
 which would pass through the body, tthus cleaning it out.
 l In England the jawbone of the pike,
 beaten up, Vas good for pleurisy and other kindred ailments. also for pain in
 the heart and lungs. The small bones, powdered. were used to dry up sores. The heart and gall of this fish were considered sovereign cure for ague and bad eyes, and to abate levers etc. l The older physicians ascribed various miraculous powders to the fat of the lcarp. Among other diseases for which 1t was remedy was a peculiar now un- ldefinable, disorder termed shot rheu- ,matism." It was applied by frequent
 rubbing on the painful part, and the eff
 feet wass said to be very modifying and salutary. A small triangular stone, be- flieved {erroneously) to be found in the jaws Of carpsian being ground to pow
 der and applied to bleeding nose was said to act as a styptic. The gall was used as liniment for sore eyes, and l above the eyes" says an old Aescula- ipius, two little bones exist, semi-cir- cular in shape, which are diligently pre- served by noble females against the lu- naticidal disease" Tn the Haven of Health" an old medical work, the carp 1 is comprised in the list of 'ten sortes of l fish which are reclSoned as principal in I the preservation of Tealth,'' and the au- thor adds, 'it is in great wholesomeness lof great value and the tongue of the
 earpe is very pleasant to carping la dies"
 1 In Germany perch was recommended Ito be eaten freely by wounded men, wo- 1 men in childbed and for dangerous fe- ivers. Old doctors used to prescribe two Gmaginary) round bones from the lperchs head as remedy for stone. Walton quotes Gesner to the effect lthat the fat of the grayling being set with little honey a day or two in the isun, in little glass, iss very excellent against redness or swarthiness, or any, thing that breeds in. the eyes" Ladies should take hint from this.
 l The ''otoliths," or ear stones, from the fSciaena aquila are comparatively large,
 and were formerly deemed efficacious
 against collie, provided they had been
 received as gifts, as purchased stones were believed to lose their virtue. They
 were mounted in gold and worn sus- ipended around the neck, and were high fly prized.
 1 Many fishes are said to have poison- ous qualities when eaten, while others poison by biting with their teeth or
 wounding with their spines or fins. The sting ray had an evil reputation among the ancients, and is not much loved by the present generation. The serrated ispine on the tail of this fish occasions
 severe lacerated wounds, Pliny, Aelian
 and Oppian asserted that the venom with which it was endowed was capable
 of causing injury to even vegetable and mineral substances trees losing their