Tobit's fish

Tobit's fish
the Book of Tobit in the Apocrypha tells of Tobit, who was blinded by sparrow dung while sleeping in a courtyard. The archangel Raphael told Tobit\'s son to catch a huge fish in the Tigris River and apply its gall to Tobit\'s eyes to cure his blindness. The fish was probably Barbus esocinus, a large member of the Cyprinidae

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