The operation should be performed in severe cases only, where the rumen is excessively overloaded and distended.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
In any case, the colonists complained that shipping came out so overloaded with passengers as to invite the epidemic disease with which they usually suffered on landing, and which made of newcomers a useless burden on the colony for some time after their arrival.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
It does not occur to him to reflect that maybe the heart is slowing up because it is overloaded with fatigue poisons, of which it cannot rid itself, and that the effect of stimulating it into fresh activity will be to leave it more dangerously poisoned than before.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair