618 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
The Royal and National Veterinary Society of Italy held 
an extraordinary sitting on the 18th February last to re¬ 
ceive a communication from M. Volante, municipal veteri¬ 
nary surgeon at Turin. This gentleman made known that 
Trichina had been discovered in certain hams imported from 
America, forwarded from Cincinnatti and sold at Turin. 
Professor Perroncito, of the Veterinary School, consulted by 
M. Volante, had found the parasite. There was, therefore, 
no doubt in the matter. It was estimated that about four 
hams per cent, were infested. M. Volante pointed out the 
measures of sanitary police taken in relation to American 
provisions. The society, after a vote of thanks to the veteri¬ 
narians attached to the Municipality of Turin and charged 
with the duties of inspection, decided to address to the 
Minister of Home Affairs, on whom falls the superintendence 
of the Italian sanitary service in Italy, a memoire on the 
general measures which should be taken with regard to the 
flesh of pigs of American supply which are sold in all the 
Peninsula. Also advantage was taken of the occasion to 
solicit the minister to investigate the case of municipalities 
of towns where the service for meat inspection is not 
organised, and to hasten the progress of its establishment. 
Giornale della Societa reale e Rationale di Medicina 
Veterinarian—Case of Rabies in a Soiv in Milk; the disease 
not communicated to the Young Pigs , by M. Giainperi, 
veterinarian, Montegrimano (Marche).—On the 24th Sep¬ 
tember, 1877, a peasant, named Gentili, was feeding a sow 
* aged four years, and in an advanced stage of pregnancy, 
when a stray dog in passing threw himself on the animal 
and inflicted two deep wounds, one on the left nostril, the 
other on the lip. Proceeding on his way the dog shortly 
afterwards attacked two other sows, property of a M. Begni, 
and then took refuge in the territory of the little Republic of 
St. Marino, where he was slaughtered. As advised by the 
professional attendant, M. Begni isolated the two bitten 
animals and kept them under observation. In the progress 
of the twentieth day after the bite the two became dull, com¬ 
menced to grunt incessantly, sometimes chewing the straw 
of their bedding, secreting a considerable quantity of saliva 
and refusing all food. The symptoms underwent change, 
becoming so much aggravated that on the twenty-fourth day, 
four days after the commencement of the attack, it became 
impossible to approach them, the sight of a man causing 
the highest degree of excitement. On the twenty-sixth day 
paraplegia set in, and death occurred that evening. The sow 
belonging to Gentili, the first bitten, littered on the evening 
