Volume 1

The meat industry and meat inspection : a comprehensive account of the principal animals and fish, including cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and game, supplied to the British meat market, together with a description of the various industrial processes connected therewith and the scientific inspection of meat / by Gerald R. Leighton and Loudon M. Douglas.

  • Leighton, Gerald Rowley, 1868-
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: The meat industry and meat inspection : a comprehensive account of the principal animals and fish, including cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and game, supplied to the British meat market, together with a description of the various industrial processes connected therewith and the scientific inspection of meat / by Gerald R. Leighton and Loudon M. Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    the trail (i.e., not cleaned), it is necessary to purchase it absolutely fresh. Eel (Anguilla vulgaris). This familiar snake-like fish is brown or green on the back and sides and white below and has such small scales as to be quite smooth to the touch. The eyes are very small, and the lower jaw protrudes beyond the upper. The female is larger than the Skate male and grows to nearly 40 in. and a weight of 10 lb., but this is ex- ceptional. Eels live to a great age and survive low temperatures. They can even be frozen in ice and thawed back to life. The so-called sharp- nosed eel is in reality the female, and the broad-nosed eel is the male. The silver and yellow eels of the trade are also merely two different conditions of the one and only eel in our rivers, the silver eel being about to go down to the sea to spawn, as these fish cannot deposit their eggs in fresh water. Eels occur in practically all muddy rivers in the British Islands, and in many clear streams, where they prey on the young trout and salmon. They are not esteemed as food in Scotland. [The Conger Eel [Congervulgaris) is a large marine kind, more silvery than most river eels, with large eyes and no scales. It is not muddy like the river eel, but lives among the rocks. Conger, in which the female alone ever grows longer than 32 in., are caught weighing over 120 lb., but a fish of half that weight is above the average.] Skate {Raia batis). This is one of the many rays which are sold in the fish market and is the most delicate. It is closely related to the sharks and dog-fish, and is a flattened, triangular fish, with a long and