i54 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
moreover, bearing very closely on the question still under 
dispute as to how, or by what part the worm effects its 
entrance into the organism, and also, of course, bearing on 
the question of prophylaxis. 
{To be continued.') 
SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY 
JOURNALS. 
By John Henry Steel, Demonstrator of Anatomy at the 
Royal Veterinary College. 
[Continued from p. 12.) 
Summary.-— From Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire of 
15th of December, 1878:—Report of the Proceedings at the 
third sitting of the Congres National Veterinaire, also 
M. Rossignol, of Melum, on “ The Elastic Ligature.” From 
the Journal de Medecine Veterinaire et de Zootechnie, 
December, 1878:— M. Chenier on “Pneumatic Aspiration.” 
Also elections to professorships, and other veterinary 
honours. Annates de Medecine Veterinaire, January, 1879: 
— M. TrasboCs communication to the Paris Academy of 
Medicine on “ Distemper.” 
From the Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire, 15th December, 
1878 :—“ What share ought veterinarians to have in inspec¬ 
tions of cattle fairs and markets, slaughter-houses and 
knackers’ yards; and also in [Jurys de Concours ) election 
Conclaves and Assessment Commissions” was the complex 
question which the Congres National Veterinaire had to 
examine at its third sitting, 11th September, M. Quivogne, 
V. P., in the chair. The inspection of fairs and markets 
naturally belongs to veterinarians, since it aims at ascer¬ 
taining whether animals brought to those places where they 
are to be sold are healthy or affected with diseases capable of 
transmission, and hence of bringing loss to the public. On 
that point there could be no disagreement; the Bill at 
present under consideration acknowledges the necessity of 
sanitary inspection of fairs and of markets, and confides the 
duty to veterinarians. According to M. Viseur, veterinary > 
inspectors ought not to limit their duty to the pointing out 
the existence of a contagious disease in the animal and the 
forbidding it from entering the market; they ought to 
enlarge their mission by inquiring the name and address of 
