SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 681 
“Italy .—In no country of the world has inoculation been 
more appreciated than here. Since 1852 different official 
commissions have been appointed, in the different provinces, 
to study and test the question of inoculation as a preventive 
means against pleuro-pneumonia. The new method espe¬ 
cially made way in Upper Italy, where agriculture is most 
intimately concerned with live stock. Multiplied experi¬ 
ments were everywhere made, and the conclusions of the 
official commissioners were all favorable to the practice of 
inoculation, which gradually and unobtrusively at length 
became an established custom with stock owners. In 1856 
the Society of Agriculture of the Sardinian States adjudged 
to a savant, who had honored me with his precious friend¬ 
ship, and who shall never be forgotten by me. Dr. Ponza, 
Chief Physician of the Foreigners’ Hospital at Alexandria, 
a gold medal, f as having been the promoter of the Willems’ 
method in Italy.’ The Official Commissioners of the Society 
of Agriculture of the Sardinian States and of the Pavia 
Chamber of Commerce and Industry have always spoken 
well of the process, but the Academy will excuse lengthy 
extracts from their reports. Though I am diffident in 
putting my personal proceedings on record I must do so now, 
since I do not better know how to give proof of the true 
favour which the discovery of inoculation enjoys in Italy 
than by giving some details of the reception accorded to the 
inventor of the process during a visit in 1872. The agri¬ 
culturists of Lommelline, where before 1852 pleuro- pneu¬ 
monia raged with the greatest intensity, and regularly 
devastated the herds of their rich and well-kept farms, 
causing incalculable losses, tried inoculation, and at the end 
of some time their cattle were freed from this epizootic scourge. 
These agriculturists and cattle owners, having learned that I 
was about to visit their country, spontaneously and eagerly 
seized the opportunity thus afforded them to personally testify 
their thanks. They prepared a brilliant fete, and invited me 
to Mortara, the chief town of the country, and there the Agri¬ 
cultural Society, the Medical Committee, and the Munici¬ 
pality, gave me a most brilliant reception. I was truly 
confused with the honours accorded to so humble a person. 
Senators, deputies, many members of the medical body, of 
the corporation of veterinary surgeons, collected from all 
parts of the country, together with rich proprietors and 
smaller agriculturists, had met together to take part in my 
fete and shake my hand. At the banquet, which took place 
in the hall at the railway station, M. Deputy Passavini , in 
delivering to me the address of the Communal Council, said : 
