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...