Note 714 — Chapter XIX · FISH IN MYTHS, SYMBOLS, DIET, AND MEDICINE
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The belief in fish as curatives of not only human but also animal ailments still lingers. In this very year, 1920, we read in The Field, Aug. 14, of a Ross-shire crofter begging for a live trout to push down the throat of a cow, that had just calved but was suffering from hæmorrhage. In consequence, or in spite of the trout, the cow recovered.