Gray's supplement to the Pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner / by Theophilus Redwood.

  • Gray, Samuel Frederick, 1766-1828.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Gray's supplement to the Pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner / by Theophilus Redwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hab. On our sea coast. Use. Pressed for oil. Gasterosteus aculeatus. (Linn.) The Stickleback. This extremely small fish is in some places so plentiful as to be pressed for its oilj the mark being used as manure. MuLLus BARBATAS. The Mullet. Hab. In the Northern Ocean, and in the Mediterranean. Food. Almost anything. Use. Difficult of digestion, but nutritious. '' Good in colic from cold, and pituitous humours. Applied fresh, they help the bitings of the sea-dragons, scorpions, and spiders. Scomber scombrus. (Linn.) The Mackerel. Hab. The Ocean and Mediterranean. Food. They feed near sandy shores. Use. Supposed good for those labouring under hepatic diseases. Scomber thynnus. (Linn.) The Tunny. Hab. The Mediterranean Sea. Imported from Italy; preserved in oil, or salted. Sparus aurata. (Linn.) Lunidated Gilt Head. A beautiful fish, called by the ancients Chrysophris, (golden eye- brow,) from a golden-coloured band passing from one eye to the other. The flesh is salted. Sparus pagrus. (Linn.) Hab. The Indian seas, and the shores of the United States. The flesh said to be poisonous, and used for suicide. (Gray.) Order 2. MALACOPTERYGII ABDOMINALES. (Soft-finned; fxaXaKog, soft.) Char. Ventral fins behind the pectorals; rays soft or articulated. There are five families of this order. The first of these is the Cyprinoides, or the carp family; this includes the following species among others, the carp, the barbel, the gudgeon, the tench, the bream, the roach. The second family, or the Esoces, contains the species of pike. The fourth family, or salmons, contains the Salmon, properly so called, or the Trout. The fifth family, called Clupes, comprehends the herring, shad, sprat, the Clupea encrasicholus, (Linn.) or Anchovy. Clupea encrasicholus. (Linn.) The Anchovy. A little sea-fish, as thick and as big as one's finger, having a thick head. The little anchovies are valued more than the larger ones. The anchovies are taken in several parts, as in the river of Genoa, in Catalonia, at Nice, Antibes, St. Tropez, and other places in Provence. They are generally taken in the night, always in May, June, and July, when they come from the great ocean into the Mediterranean, to go to the Levant. Use. Aperitive and stimulating to the stomach. Pomet. Clupea harengus. (Linn.) The Herring. Hab. In the Baltic.