VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XLV. 
No. 534. 
JUNE, 1872. 
Fourth Series. 
No. 210. 
Communications and Cases. 
THE VETERINARY INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 
AT VIENNA. 
Ry G. Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineers. 
As the readers of the Veterinarian are probably aware, a 
congress or conference, due to the initiative of Austria, has 
been recently held at Vienna, with the object of arriving at 
some definite conclusion with regard to the measures most 
likely to be successful in limiting the spread of the Cattle 
Plague. A summary of the proceedings of this congress has 
just reached me, having appeared in the Brussels Veterinary 
Journal for May ; and as it may he of interest to the members 
of the veterinary profession in this country, from more than 
one point of view, I beg to submit it for their consideration. 
The assembly was composed of delegates from nearly every 
government in Europe, as all are more or less liable to suffer 
from visitations of this bovine and ovine scourge, and some 
have in recent years been submitted to serious loss and incon¬ 
venience through its ravages. 
On the 16th of March His Excellency the Austrian Minister 
of Agriculture proceeded to open the conference, which was 
held under the auspices of the Austro-Hungarian government, 
and was chiefly called upon to deliberate on the uniform mea¬ 
sures to be adopted by every country in Europe against the 
propagation of this plague. 
The questions which were to serve as a basis for the deli¬ 
berations had been formulated by the Austrian government, 
conformably to a project elaborated by the teaching staff of 
xlv. .27 
