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Title: Every man his own cattle doctor: containing the causes, symptoms, and treatment of all the diseases incident to oxen, sheep, and swine; and a sketch of the anatomy and physiology of neat cattle
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Clater, Francis, 1756-1823 Youatt, William, 1776-1847 Skinner, John S. (John Stuart), 1788-1851
Subjects: Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hoven cattle, however, it is notonly necessary to relieve the stomach from an accumulation of gas, but from thefermenting pultaceous mixture which generates it: for this purpose a tube, d, iaapplied to the extremity of the syringe, and then passed into the animals stomachthrough the mouth, as in Fig. 2, and being put into action, the offending matter isdischarged by a side opening. When the same operation is performed on slieep, aBinaller tube, e, is used. The characteristic excellency of this apparatus is, that thereis no limit to the quantity of fluid that may be ejected or extracted. The samesyringe is used for extracting poison from the stomach of man, for smoking insects,for extinguishing fires, and syringing fruit trees. Another drawing represents a very useful instrument, and for which there isfrequent occasion; a hollow probang, for relieving cattle choked with turnips, pota-toes, &c. It is armed with a stilet, which being passed into the throat of an animal THE HOOVE. 105
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106 THE HOOVE. cannot, indeed, extract the food from the stomach by his tube, but hecan do that which is almost as beneficial. He attaches to the tube apump, that can in a moment be altered, so as to be used either as aforcing-pump like a little garden-engine, or as a common sucking-pump, and by means of it he can inject as much water into thestomach as he pleases, and draw it out again, and wash away theimpurities of the food, and a considerable portion of the food itself;or, by using warm wrater, and perfectly filling the stomach, he canexcite the act of vomiting, and so get rid of the nuisance at once.This is an admirable contrivance, and no one who has many cattleshould be without the pump and tube. Some of these instrumentsare made on a smaller scale, so as to be adapted for sheep labouringunder the same complaint, to which they are as subject as oxen are.Nothing can be better contrived for the administering of injectionsthan these tubes with the pump attached to them. Two or thr

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