Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.

appears to be represented at this dining board. Indeed, the blood of the red frog was a deadly poison under the first dynasty. The Greeks, Romans, and even many Jews, were fond of scale fish; and these animals, pickled, are used every Friday night on the tables of modern Hebrews. Such learned writers as Xenocrates and Athenaeus were deeply versed in the art of pickling fish. The ancients considered boiling the best way to prepare this food for delicate stomachs, and claim that even an ostrich is unable to digest the fried variety. There is but little nourishment in fish. The Ichthyophagi, described by Herodotus and Diodorus, while apparently healthy, were short-lived ; and the opinion, expressed by some latter-day psychologists and physiologists, that fish is brain food, will not hold good, as exclusively fish- eating peoples are not only weak-minded, but leprous, becoming scaly, like the animals they devour. No race, following an exclusive diet, ever exhibits genius. The Galactophagi, among whom may be enumerated the Abii, were mostly celibates and enemies of war, very effeminate and cowardly. Beef-eating races are usually savage and brave—like Achilles, who was fed by Chiron on the marrow of wild beasts." " Milk is a fine food, however," said Paulus Andro- cydes. " In spite of the statements of Hippocrates, Galen, and Celsus, that it produces headache, billious- ness, and flatulence, I have constantly given it in my practice as a remedy for Bright's disease—knowing full well that the ancients decried its use by those suffering from complaints of the kidneys and bladder. I usually give it boiled in cases of consumption, and find when it is heated with hot iron, in the form of a red poker, as recommended by Serapion, that it contains enough of