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On Hoven Cattle. By John Steele. 
Read August 1809. 
As the President in the communication on hoven 
cattle, with which he has favoured the society, has re- 
ferred them to the Museum Rusticum, I beg leave to 
submit to their consideration some remarks on the pa- 
pers inserted in that publication by Mr, John W. Baker. 
I deem this the more important, since the errors and 
inconsistencies of this writer, with respect to the seat of 
the disease, the necessity of piercing the gut to let the 
wind escape, and the little fear that should be enter- 
tained of wounding the intestine, appear to have been 
adopted by the President ; and may, whilst sanctioned 
by his name, be productive of injurious consequences 
in those parts of the country where the introduction of 
clover is recent, and where little experience of the treat- 
ment of hoven cattle has been consequently acquired. 
That the first stomach which contains the crude ali- 
ment, previously to undergoing the process of regurgita- 
tiga, is the principle seat of the disorder, is evinced, not 
enly by the relief afforded by natural eructation, and by 
the extraction of the fixed air through a flexible tube 
introduced through the esophagus, but also by pierc- 
ing the paunch in the most prominent place between 
the hip bone and the short rib on the left side, which is 
the ordinary method.—In the last case a considerable 
quantity of vegetable matter in a high state of fermen- 
tation generally obtrudes through the orifice, but I never 
witnessed any emission of wind from the abdomen.— 
