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LIBER IX · CAPUT 49

THE MALADIES OF FISHES

THE MALADIES OF FISHES. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
THE MALADIES OF FISHES · EDITORIAL PLATE IX.49 · modern editorial plate
THE MALADIES OF FISHES. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Morbos universa genera piscium, ut cetera animalia etiam fera, non accipimus sentire. verum aegrotare singulos manifestum facit aliquorum macies, cum in eodem genere praepingues alii capiantur.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

We do not find it stated that all kinds of fishes are subject to epizoötic diseases, like other animals of a wild nature: but it is evidently the fact that individuals among them are attacked by maladies, from the emaciated appearance that many present, while at the same moment others of the same species are taken quite remarkable for their fatness.