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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
MEETING OF THE IMPERIAL SOCIETY OF VETERINARY 
MEDICINE OF PARIS. 
At a meeting of the above society, held on the 14th of 
November, 1861, M. Sanson read a report from a committee 
which had been appointed to answer the question addressed 
by the Minister of Agriculture to the society, relating to 
pleuro-pneumonia, and the advantage of inoculation as pro¬ 
posed by Dr. Willems as a preventive. 
The committee resolved to send the following answer to 
the minister:—“The society shares in the opinion on the 
question which you have done it the honour to consult it, 
which was promulgated in the letter to his Excellency the 
Prefet of the Department of the North; in consequence of 
which it does not deem it necessary to carry out the views of 
the agricultural committee of the arrondissement of Lille, 
recommending the intervention of the government to induce 
the cultivators to inoculate their cattle for pleuro-pneumonia, 
whatsoever might be the advantages of the generalization of 
this practice in regard to agricultural produce, of which neat 
cattle is the principal element.^ After several meetings the 
society was called upon to decide the question at its sitting 
on the 23rd of January, 1862, when M. U. Leblanc said that 
there were two ideas expressed which ought to be separated. 
In the first part the commission expresses an advice to be 
submitted to the minister, which no doubt will be shared in 
by the society; but in the second, inoculation is approved 
of as a prophylactic against pleuro-pneumonia. M. Leblanc 
does not think that the society ought to adopt conclusions 
which would implicate it in this respect, for the question of 
inoculation is finally settled in the sense adopted by the 
majority of the commission; he therefore proposes to omit 
the second part. 
The reporter says, that according to the bearing of the 
conclusions, the question as to the value of inoculation is 
reserved. 
M. U. Leblanc is not of the same opinion; he thinks that 
the society would promulgate by it an opinion laudatory of 
the value of inoculation, and which he believes the society 
