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of the law, the centre of the whole question is whether or not the 
tissues of bob veal are really unwholesome as a food and if the 
body functions are in any way disturbed thereby. 
It is obvious that the only way to settle such a question is to 
eat bob veal. Dietetic experiments have, therefore, been carried 
along with the preceding portion of the investigation. Seven 
families, including over 20 individuals, have co-operated at var¬ 
ious times in this portion of the work. The ages of these indi¬ 
viduals ranged from two to sixty years. No report of any dis¬ 
turbance of the physiological functions was received. The state¬ 
ment that the flesh of bob veal has a laxative effect and induces 
diarrhoea has not been confirmed in a single instance throughout 
our work. The health in all cases was apparently normal; nor 
did any family refuse a second helping when another carcass be¬ 
came available. 
In all veal there is a deficiency of fat as compared with beef. 
p 
I11 bob veal this deficiency is naturally somewhat more pro¬ 
nounced because fat is a result of growth and age under proper 
nutritive conditions. In the use of bob veal this deficiency may 
be overcome to a considerable extent by cooking 1 the veal with 
pork or other fat. The fact that persons are arrested at times 
for attempting to dispose of bob veal would indicate that the law 
is, without much doubt, sometimes evaded. Persons have un¬ 
doubtedly eaten bob veal unwittingly who would have disdained 
to touch it if they had known in advance what it was. The in¬ 
vestigation thus far has shown that the tissues of bob veal do 
possess a somewhat larger percentage of water than do those of 
mature veal. Is it logical to condemn the use of bob veal as a 
food on this ground, when we consider as delicacies certain fish, 
lobsters, oysters, etc., all of which possess a higher percentage 
of water than even bob veal, and bring a higher price in the mar¬ 
ket ? 
Is there a demand for bob veal? In all of the larger and 
many of the smaller cities of the East there is a considerable for¬ 
eign population. Many of these persons have eaten bob veal in 
their native homes; they knew what thev were eating and wanted 
