EDITORIAL. 
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We hope later on to keep our readers posted on this impor¬ 
tant event. 
Sixth International Congress of Veterinary Medi¬ 
cine. —The next Veterinary Congress is to take place this year 
in Berne, Switzerland, in complying with the vote passed at the 
preceding meeting—as we have already remarked in our last is¬ 
sue. 
The programme laid out for this event is usually large and 
important. Six questions are to be discussed. 
1st. International Veterinary Sanitary police—proposition of 
an international convention concerning the cattle trade ; publi¬ 
cation of an international bulletin of the contagious diseases of 
domestic animals. 
2d. Inoculations for diagnosis or to grant immunities to the 
point of view of veterinary sanitary police ; results obtained. 
3d. Tuberculous meats and public hygiene. 
4th. Influence of veterinary science upon social development 
and increase of public wealth. 
5th. Contagious pleuro-pneumonia, results obtained in every 
country with the means used to stamp it out. 
6th. Unification of anatomical nomenclature. 
All these questions are of great importance and the selection of 
the reporters in the various sections shows how the committee 
has been careful in trying to obtain the most valuable informa¬ 
tion. 
The second question where the subject of malleine, as diagnos¬ 
tic mean of glanders, tuberculine, as that of tuberculosis, pneu- 
mo-bacilline for pleuro-pneumonia, the preventive inoculations 
against symptomatic anthrax, the inoculations against tetanus, 
and swine diseases, etc. This question itself will draw reports 
from some of the most scientific men in the profession, and cer¬ 
tainly the reading of the papers of the reporters of the fifth ques¬ 
tion will call from the various parts of the world statements of 
such value that the presence of pleuro-pneumonia on earth will 
be readily decided. 
