MODERN FARRIER. S4S 



tube, is put within it, which is to be withdrawn 

 when the tube has entered the stomach. 



He has found that the space from the fore-teeth 

 of the under jaw, to the bottom of the first stomach 

 of a large ox, measures about six feet, and he has 

 passed such a tube, five feet and nine inches long, 

 into the gullet and stomach of a living ox. The 

 tube ought therefore to be six feet long, that we 

 may be sure of its answering in the largest oxen. 



After the tube is passed into the stomach, it may 

 be allowed to remain for any length of time; as 

 when it is pressed to one side of the throat it does 

 not intercept the breathing of the animal. 'The 

 greatest part of the elastic and condensed fixed air, 

 will be readily discharged through the tube ; and if 

 it be thought necessary, the remainder of it, or the 

 supei'fluous drink, may be sucked out by a bellows 

 fixed to the upper end of the tube, with a couple of 

 valves, one at its muzzle, and the other at the side 

 of it, so disposed as to allow the air to pass in the 

 direction from the stomach upwards. 



By means of such a tube, the air is not only more 

 certainly discharged than by stabbing the animal; 

 but the dangers avoided which the stabbing occa- 

 sions, not so much by the irritation which the 

 wound creates, as that the air, and the other con- 

 tents of the stomach, getting into the cavitv of the 

 belly, between the containing parts and the bowels, 

 excite such a degree of inflammation as frequently 

 proves fatal to the animal. This tube may be also 

 useful for the purpose of introducing stimulant me- 

 dicines into the stomach, when the contraction at 

 the upper orifice would prevent their being given 

 without some such contrivance. 



Mr. Blaine has simplified this mode of relief much, 

 by the invention of an instrument, for v/liich he was 

 rewarded by the Society for the Encouragement of 

 Arts, with fifty guineas. This is simply a cane of 

 considerable diameter, and six feet in length, for 



