Note 666 — Chapter XVIII · THE NINE FISH MOST HIGHLY PRIZED
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Badham (plagiarising Blaikie), on p. 364—in “Galen, Xenocrates, Diphilus speak disparagingly of the Sole,” is inaccurate. Xenocrates terms its flesh indigestible. Galen states that it is quite the reverse, and commends it highly as a diet. Diphilus does not hesitate to declare that the Sole affords abundant nourishment and is most pleasing to the taste. Cf. Nonnius, p. 89. In the case of a Sole with its customarily modest dimensions it is not easy to hearken unto the command, which was laid down in the twelfth century for the benefit of Robert, the so-called King of England, “Anglorum Regi scripsit schola tota Salerni,” by “the Schoole of Salernes most learned and juditious Directorie, of Methodicall Instructions for the guide and governing the health of Man”:
“Si pisces molles sunt, magno corpore tolles. Si pisces duri, parvi sunt plus valituri.”
Cf. Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, London, 1617, but better still Sir A. Croke’s ed., Oxford, 1830.