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Veal, Wholesomeness Of

"Veal," says Dr. Graham, looking at the subject from the medical point of view, "is usually considered not at all of a heating nature, and is therefore allowed, perhaps generally by the profession, to patients convalescent from an attack of fever, and to those who have a disposition to bleeding from the lungs or elsewhere, especially with the addition of some acid; but it is, in my opinion, so very indigestible an article, and has uniformly so strong a tendency to irritate the stomach and intestines, that I wholly proscribe its use wherever persons are not strong and healthy. In all stomach complaints it is peculiarly injurious. The flesh of calves which have been robbed of their blood by repeated bleedings, or reared by the hand with milk adulterated with chalk, and confinement in small dark places so as to prevent motion, is unusually depraved."