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6. — Inquibt on the Coxtti^ent. 



(1.)— vltehinaey colleges on continent. 



Having obtained all the information available in England with 

 respect to pleuro-pneumonia, I next turned my attention to the 

 Continent, and I soon saw that it was upon the veterinary 

 authorities there that I would have to depend for the most reliable 

 information respecting pleuro-pneumonia and the other infectious 

 diseases to which, stock are liable, as well as the best mode of 

 dealing with these diseases. The reason for this is, that while 

 the advancement of veterinary knowledge and the prevention of 

 diseases in stock have in Great Britain been left almost entirely 

 to private enterprise and individual effort, in I believe every State 

 on the Continent of Europe veterinary schools and colleges have 

 been established for many years and liberally endowed by the 

 different Governments ; and that many of the professors at these 

 colleges are men of the very highest standing, who know the 

 anatomy of the animal and their work generally as well as the 

 best medical men know the human subject and the proper treat- 

 ment of disease. In this way all the different diseases affecting 

 animals on the Continent are fully studied and mastered, while 

 the different sorts of treatment are carefully tested, and their 

 value ascertained. ' 



(2.) — International Veterinary Congress. 



This was the course which had long ago been adopted on the 

 Continent with regard to pleuro-pneumonia and its treatment by 

 inoculation, although the fact was not known in Australia. 



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Thus, I found that so far back as 1863, a resolution was passed 

 by the Eirst International Veterinary Congress — held at Hamburg 

 in July of that year, at the suggestion of Professor Gamgee of 

 London — " That all cattle suspected of heing infected loith pleuro- 

 pneumonia sJiould be inoculated'' ; and that while not a single 

 voice was raised against the efficacy of inoculation, some of the 

 members of the Congress — which included such men as Professors 

 Gerlach and Hertwig of Berlin, Eoll of Vienna, Nicklas of 

 Munich, Haubner of Dresden, Hering of Stuttgart, and Gamgee 

 of London — went so far as to propose that a law should be passed 

 making the operation compulsory in all such cases. There have 

 since that time been several meetings of this Congress, at one of 

 which upwards of 170 veterinary surgeons, from all parts of 

 Europe, were present ; and the opinions expressed with regard to 

 inoculation for pleuro-pneumonia all went to show that the faith 

 in the efficacy of that operation is every year becoming more and 

 more firmly established on the Continent. 



