Note i — BOOK VIII.
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Fishes, one would think, should be free from Lice, by Reason they live in the Waters, and are perpetually moving in, and brushing through them; but yet have their Sorts too.
Besides which, I have frequently found great Numbers of long slender Worms in the Stomachs, and other Parts of Fish, particularly Codfish, especially such as are poor; which Worms have work’d themselves deeply into the Coats and Flesh, so that they could nor easily be gotten out: So Aristotle, saith of some Fishes, Ballero & Tilloni Lumbricus, innascitur, qui debilitat, &c. Chalcis vitio infestatur diro, ut Pediculi sub Branchiis innati quàm multi interimant. Hist. An. L. 8. c. 20.