124 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 



111 tbe spirit of these autecedeut conventions the following resolu- 

 tions were submitted : 



1. To organize in every country a veterinary sanitary service charged exclusively 

 with all that pertains to veterinary science, and the tuenibers of which shall be coun- 

 sel of every department of the Government, but which shall be more especially repre- 

 sented directly in relation to the central power — that veterinary medicine shall there 

 have her chief of service. 



'2. The veterinary sanitary service should utilize the greatest possible number of 

 veterinarians. To do this efKciently and economically there should be recognized 

 two degrees or classes of veterinarians. The one of a local nature connected less 

 with the state than with the municipal and provincial authorities and charged with 

 the surveillance of fairs and markets of animals, the inspection of meats of the 

 butchery and abattoires, the control of rendering works, the inspection of breeding 

 animals, the inspection or direction of mutual insurance companies against the mor" 

 tality of animals, the revision of the census of domestic animals, &c.; the second 

 charged with a wider range of duties, comprising the service of the state, and capable 

 of becoming international, embracing especially the suppression and prevention of 

 contagious maladies and epizootics, and also the control of the different other veter- 

 inary corps. 



3. Between the various states which by a regular repression and xireventive serv 

 ice against epizootics, can furnish the guarantees of a good veterinary sanitary police 

 there should be established a treaty having for its object: 1. To apprize the other 

 states as speedily as possible of any eruption of Rinderpest, pleuro-pneumonia con- 

 tagiosa, aphthous fever, sheep-pox, maiadie du coit (dourine), glanders (or farcy), and 

 of scab in sheep. 2. To publish periodically a sanitary bulletin upon these diseases, 

 their extent, progress, and extinction, which documents should also be published in 

 the international bulletin if judged necessary. 'A. To oppose these diseases by meas- 

 ures of sanitary police which have first been discussed and adopted as the most ad- 

 visable. 4. To furnish with animals and herds that are moved into and out of a ter- 

 ritory certificates of origin and health of a guaranteed administrative value. 5. To 

 contribute to the publication of an international veterinary sanitary bulletin. 



FIRST RESOLUTION. 



Among the arguments advanced in support of the first resolution 

 were the following : 



In various countries of Europe and America these duties essentially 

 veterinary are left too much in the hands of persons ignorant of veteri- 

 nary- science. In some they are largely dealt with by bodies mainly 

 medical — sanitary boards. Xo one denies the great debt of veterinary 

 medicine to that of man. The works of the physician in anatomy, physi- 

 ology, i)athology, surgery, «S:c., furnish the most valuable material for 

 the medicine of animals. The principles of both branches of medicine 

 are the same. The observations and experiments on animals made to 

 advance the one are of the highest value to the other. Many of the 

 parasites and zymotic poisons of man are common to the animal as 

 well. But when we come to the application of these principles to the 

 diagnosis and treatment of disease in animals the physician finds that 

 the two medicines diverge at every step, and that without a special] 

 training he is helpless to deal with that of animals. At one time pliysi-| 

 cians could be found who were more accomplished in microscopy, &c. 



