THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. LIII. 
No. 627. 
MARCH, 1880. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 303. 
Communications and Cases. 
SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY 
JOURNALS. 
By John Henry Steel, M.R.C.V.S., F.Z.S., Demonstrator 
of Anatomy at the Royal Veterinary College. 
Summary .—From the Revue Veterinaire, December, 1879: 
“ Extracts and Analyses of Journals,” by M. Labat, 
November, 1879: “ German Veterinary Review,” by M. 
Neumann. 
Professor Perroncito on “Typhus of Fowls and Trichina,” 
from Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire , 15th January, 1880. 
Serious Accidents following Vaccination , from M. Labat’s 
“Review of Journals.” 
Dr. Vallein, in the Revue d’Hygiene et de Police Sanitaire, 
states that the Roman Committee removes with scissors, 
from the teats of the vaccine-bearing cow, the small layer of 
skin in connection with the pustule. These fragments 
of tissue are sent to those doctors of the neighbouring 
towns who require vaccine. For San Quirice d’Orcia the 
pustules were forwarded from Rome on 22nd April, and 
received on the 24th. Their use for vaccination commenced 
on the 26th, and was continued until the 29th of April, when 
they gave off an odour due to commencing putrefaction. 
Probably this generated septic fluids, which were introduced 
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