SYNOPSIS OF VETERINARY CONTINENTAL JOURNALS, 677 
all meat coming from abroad should be organised. 3. That 
slaughter-houses especially should undergo inspection. As 
for milk, the Congress is of opinion that the administrative 
bodies of large centres of population would do well if they 
entrusted to a special committee the preparation of sanitary 
police regulations based on the transmissibility of certain 
diseases from animals to man. The Congress also voted on 
the necessity for establishment and working of laboratories 
for the analysis of all provisions, milk included ; similar to 
those which are at present in agricultural places for the 
examination of manure, &c. 
The second sitting was devoted to the much debated ques¬ 
tion of legislation in reference to defects sanctioning return 
of a purchased animal. After a profound discussion on this 
question, treated in the lines indicated by Professors Hardy 
and Lorge , the Congress was appealed to for a statement 
whether there is reason for maintaining the present law in 
full vigour. This remained undecided, as the voting was 
evenly balanced for and against. Considering the maintenance 
of the law as settled, the Congress then voted as follows : 
1. That in a case of exportation of a recently sold animal, 
the warranty ought to cease, in so far as contagious diseases 
are concerned, as soon as the animal has crossed the frontier; 
that it ought also to cease for other defects, at any rate when 
the buyer brings the animal again into Belgium, where the 
examination ought always to be made. 
2. That the minimum of price, enabling the buyer to 
return in case of defect, should be raised to, for horses, 300 
francs, and for animals of the bovine species, 150 francs. 
3. That the delay for commencement of the action ought 
to receive some moderate limit, such as the time of incuba¬ 
tion allowed for contagious disorders. 
4. That the delay for periodical ophthalmia should be, as 
now, thirty days. 
5. That thick wind (? pousse) should be erased from the 
list of returnable defects. 
The Congress next considered the Deontology of the Vete» 
rinary Practitioner, on which question, M. Ungues, mili¬ 
tary veterinary surgeon of the first class, of Tournai, made a 
report. Messrs. Stubbe (Louvain) and Eraers (Lean) also 
made interesting communications on this subject. On the 
third day , the sitting was devoted solely to the question of 
the Organisation of a Veterinary Civil Service , which was 
introduced by a report contributed by M. Eraers. In the 
discussion raised on this question the meeting insisted—(1). 
On the urgent necessity for the law of sanitary police, a 
