This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1811-01-01 Excerpt: ... Method of stabbing Haven Cattle, to discharge the ratified air from the stomach,-when they have been overfed with moist clover grass. Communicated by Mr. W. WaUis Mason, of Goodrest Lodge, near Warwick. From Trans. Soc. Arts, London, vol. 26. Gentlemen, I beg leave to lay before you a trocar and canula for the relief of cattle, when gorged or hoven. Since I have introduced it, it has been used with the greatest success, having, in every instance tried, been proved a safe, easy and effectual remedy. I consider it will not be necessary for me to detail the dangerous consequences arising from cattle being hoven, as it is well known, that the public are annually deprived of numbers of valuable cattle by this disorder. I am inclined to offer it as an instrument superior to that for which the society granted a premium in the year 1796; as I The instrument for which the Society of Arts rewarded the inventor by a premium of fifty guineas in 1796, was not a tube, but consisted of a cane six feet long, having a knob at one end, which was to be pushed down the throat of the animal into the paunch, and thus to give free passage to the air extricated by the clover. The flexible tube mentioned was invented by Dr. Monro of Edinburgh in 1795, and consisted of iron wire twisted round a rod of polished iron; the wire after being taken off the rod, is to be covered with leather. J. M. am of opinion, that flexible tubes may be forced down the passage which conducts to the lungs, by which most dangerous consequences would ensue. An instance of this kind occurred last year in this neighbourhood, when intending to force the passage of the paunch, and occasioned the loss of the animal. Neither the farmer or bailiff can be expected when going the rounds of the farm, to carry...