ABSTRACT
I gather, on the information of Pliny in Bk IX, Ch. 60, that writers eminent in knowledge express amazement at finding a star in the sea. The starfish is formed with very little flesh on the inside, but quite a hard exterior covering. They say it contains such a fiery heat that it scorches everything it comes into contact with in the sea, and digests all its food immediately. 1 Its flesh is beneficial if placed against parts stung by the weever-fish, as the same author relates in Bk XXXII, Ch. 5. 2 ‘The starfish,’ according to Albertus On Animals, Bk XXIV, ‘lives in the Western Ocean and is shaped like a star.
