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Extracts from Domestic and 
Veterinary, Medical, and 
The Parisian Congress. 
[From the Lancet.] 
In this country the various branches of the healing art are so 
inextricably mingled, there is such a want of efficient organization, 
and such a disregard of all considerations but those of personal or 
party interest, that any thing like the common effort for general 
good effected by the Parisian Medical Congress appears next to an 
impossibility. We cannot, indeed, but admit that the state of so- 
cial organization which allows medical men, veterinary practi- 
tioners, and druggists, all to unite for the purpose of strengthening 
their social position, throwing into the scale of reform their united 
weight, must be superior to that which exists in Great Britain. 
Nothing connected with the Parisian Congress more clearly illus- 
trates the estimable value of union between the different divisions 
of the healing art, than what has occurred with reference to the 
veterinary section, respecting the labours of which we have not 
hitherto spoken. This important section of the Congress, after 
numerous discussions and deliberations, framed a report embodying 
a number of resolutions. This report was subsequently adopted 
by the entire Congress, and has been presented to the Minister of the 
Interior, under whose jurisdiction the veterinary corps is placed, as 
the expression of the wishes of the Parisian Medical Congress on 
this subject. We understand that the Report, thus representing 
the opinions of a medical senate composed of delegates from all 
parts of France, has been most graciously received. It is evident 
that, backed by the entire Congress, it has carried with it a weight 
which no document proceeding from the veterinary body alone could 
have enjoyed. The sentiments and wishes embodied in the Report 
being quite as applicable to this country as to France, we shall 
analyze a few of the most important. 
“The veterinary surgeon,” says the Report, “living generally 
in the midst of a rural population, is daily in contact with the 
peasantry who apply to his science that he may save the animals 
which constitute a great part of their property. A science so di- 
rectly applicable to their worldly interests must be appreciated and 
respected by them, and must give authority to those who possess 
it. Were, therefore, veterinary practitioners thoroughly acquainted 
with the true doctrines of rural economy, to inculcate them to the 
agriculturists of their district, to shew them how to rear cattle so 
as to preserve their health, and to make them as productive as 
possible, and to enlighten them as to the means of ameliorating 
