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Shrimps are of two sorts; the one crookbacked, the other straitbacked: the first sort is called of French∣men Caramots de la sante healthful shrimps; because they recover▪sick and consumed persons; of all other they are most nimble, witty, and skipping, and of best juice. Shrimps were of great request amongst the Ro∣mans, and brought in as a principal dish in Venus feasts.
The best way of preparing them for healthful persons, is to boil them in sea or salt water, with a little vinegar; but for sick and consumed bodies dress them after this sort: first wash them clean in barly water, then unscale them whilst they are alive, and seeth them in chicken broth; so are they as much (or rather more) restorative as the best crabs and crevisses most highly commended by Physitians. Futhermore they are unscaled, to vent the windiness which is in them, being sodden with their scales, whereof lust and disposition to venery might arise, but no better nor sounder nourishment.
There is a great kind of Shrimps, which are called Prawnes in English, and Crangones by Rondeletius, high∣ly prized in hectick fevers and consumptions; but the crook-backt Shrimp far suprasseth them for that pur∣pose, as being of a sweeter taste and more temperate con∣stitution.
Pli. lib 9▪ c. 51.