CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 157 



1. Considering tbtit veterinarians are initiated by the tecluiical studies pursued in 

 ^their schools into the posology which pertains to the administration of medicines 

 destined to the difterent species of animals; 



2. Considering further that from this point of view they possess better guarantees 

 than do druggists agaiust the dangers which result from erroneous prescriptions ; 



3. Considering that the right to prepare and sell medicines, especially destined to 

 the treatment of diseased animals, is indispensable for veterinarians who have ready 

 ^11 the medicines necessary for the treatment of the animals to which they are called, 

 and who can furnish the same to their employers at a low price; 



4. Considering that a law prohibitive of this is not only useless but opposed to 

 sound economy — 



The international congress expresses its opinion that in all countries veterinarians 

 .should have the right to prepare and sell medicines destined to the treatment of dis- 

 eased animals, at least within the liiuits^of their practice, and that it should be lor- 

 bidden to empirics to keep pharmaceutical substances. 



5. TUBERCULOSIS IN ANIMALS. 



This subject was most extensively and ably treated by Lydtiii, of 

 Carlsriihe, reporter of the commission appointed to bring it before the 

 •congress. Unfortnnately so much time had already been consumed on 

 the preceding subjects that the congress could not give it the full and 

 ' deliberate consideration which its overwhelming imi»ortance demands. 

 Its full consideration may therefore be held to be deferred until the 

 next veterinary congress shall meet in Paris, when the increased knowl- 

 edge of the disease will doubtless strengthen views which may to-day 

 be looked upon as iu some respects premature. Meanwhile a summary 

 of Lydtin's excellent report, and the action of the congress on it, can- 

 not fail to have a high value. It concludes by proposing for the a<lop- 

 tion of congress the following resolutions : 



1. Tuberculosis is transmissible hereditarily. 



2. It is contagious. 



3. It should be included among affections which should be opposed by measures of 

 sanitary police. 



4. The measures that ought to be adopted for this purpose are the following: 



(rt.) Every owner of domestic animals must report protni)tly to the authority 

 charged with this police service every case of tuberculosis, and any symptom causing 

 susjiicion of the existence of this affection ; he must keep every animal attacked or 

 suspected out of any place where it may be able to transmit the malady. 



The same obligation should be incumbent on the steward, or representative of trhe 

 proprietor, on the person conducting a herd or flock in transit, also on the proprietor 

 of a stable, yard, i)asturage, or park where animals are temporarilj' received. 



This report is equally obligatory on veterinarians, and on any person who j)ractice8 

 by profession the art of veterinary medicine, on meat inspectors, and upon every per- 

 son engaged in the trade, of the destruction, utilization, or manipulations of cadavers 

 or their products, if before all intervention of the police he discovers the existeiu-e of 

 tuberculosis, or recognizes symptoms which lead him to suspect the presence of this 

 malady. 



(h.) Tin* appearance of the affection and the particular herd infected ought to bo 

 I)ublish('d. 



{(•.) The suspected as well as the disi^ased animils should be sequestrated, and their 

 slaughter ordered by the police, animals suspected of being infected should be kept 

 in (luaraiitino, unless there are comparati-vely few, in which case they should be 



