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d . When important lesions are present in several viscera. 
Carried by 71 votes against 18. 
e. The Congress expresses the wish that the various gov¬ 
ernments ought, as far as possible, to promote the erection of 
apparatus to sterilize flesh. Carried unanimously. 
5. —When the flesh of tuberculous animals is considered 
fit for human food, it ought, as far as possible, to be sold in 
special premises and in the sterilized condition, or with an 
intimation of its character. Adopted by 57 against 35 votes. 
6. —The Congress considers that in each country a com¬ 
mission ought to be appointed to determine with precision in 
what cases the inspectors of public and private slaughter¬ 
houses ought to post the entire carcass, or seize the whole or 
part of it, when tuberculosis is discovered at the autopsy of 
an animal. Adopted by 80 votes against 8. 
7. —The Sixth International Congress, assembled at Berne, 
calls the attention of the various states officially represented 
at it, to the necessity of instituting a general system of obli¬ 
gatory inspection of meat. Carried unanimously. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Traite de Therapeutique Chirurgicale des Animaux Domestiques. —(Trea¬ 
tise on Surgical Therapeuty of the Domestic Animals,) by MM. J. P. Cadiot, 
Professor, and J. Almy, Adjunct to the School of Alfort. (Asselin & Houzeau, 
Place de l’Ecole Medicine, Paris.) 
The first volume of this important work has just been is¬ 
sued and its contents show well the value of the whole book 
when it will be completed. 
It is divided into three parts. In the first, the authors 
have studied in a comparatively concise manner the means of 
restraint, anaesthesia, antiseptic measures, hemostasis, and 
cauterization or firing as an entrance to operative minor 
surgery. 
In the second, the diseases belonging to all structures in 
general are considered ; inflammation, abscesses, gangrene, 
ulcers, fistulas, foreign bodies, traumatic lesions in all their 
forms, and their complications. The cicatrices, actinomycosis, 
