Pork, veal, lamb, and all young meats, when not thor oughly cooked, are absolute poison to the stomach; and if half-raw beef or mutton are often eaten with impunity, it must not be inferred that they are unwholesome in their semi crude state, but only less wholesome than the young meats. Vegetables, also, half done, which is the state in which they are often sent to the table, are productive of great gastric derangement, often of a predisposition to cholera.