682 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL veterinary journals. 
That his native town had deemed it a duty and an honour 
to give faithful interpretation to the feelings of all the com¬ 
munes in Lommelline, who to-day salute, in the person of 
Dr. Willems, the benefactor of Italian agricultural industry, 
freed from the ravages of pleuro-pneumonia, thanks to the 
discovery of inoculation,’ &c. Shortly after, M. Senator 
Plezza , President of the Agricultural Society, rose and spoke 
as follows:— f When a man, by his studies, his labours, and 
his intellect, succeeds in wresting from nature a useful 
secret, when a man has the good fortune to discover a new 
application of science, valuable to all mankind, from that 
time that man no longer belongs only to the nation which 
gave him birth, but he becomes a citizen of the world, to 
which he belongs as a benefactor of humanity. It is as 
such a benefactor that to-day I have the honour to present 
to Dr. Willems this diploma of Perpetual Honorary Pre¬ 
sident of the Agricultural Society of Lommelline. It is as 
such I take his hand, as a friend, in the name of all 
agriculturists.’ Next, M.. Strcicla, President of the Me¬ 
dical Committee, and then Professor Papa , spoke in the 
name of human and veterinary medical practitioners 
respectively.” 
Germany .—I can with regard to this country truly repeat 
what 1 have said concerning the last mentioned, that the 
system of inoculation has received much experimental in¬ 
vestigation, and has given good results in Prussia, AVurtem- 
berg, Hanover, Saxony, Bohemia, and in all the other states. 
This is shown in many writings of a large number of 
veterinary surgeons, and especially in the different official 
reports of the Governmental Commission of Ober-Baruiss, 
six in number, prepared by AIM. Ulrich, Bretsch, Christanni, 
Hering, Schmidt, Thaer, Vater, &c. 
England and America. —Pleuro-pneumonia was introduced 
into England in 1842 by cattle from Holland, and into 
America in 1848 by a German cow directly imported from 
Europe, and later (in 1847) animals from England originated 
other centres of infection in that country. u Preventive 
inoculation has been tried here as in most other places. All 
cattle owners of London have their beasts inoculated. The 
same practice is carried out on many farms, especially in Ire¬ 
land. If inoculation has become a general practice with the 
English, who are people keenly alive to their own interests, 
we may be sure they have proved the matter experimentally, 
and that it has given them definite and decidedly beneficial 
results/’ The opinions of Gamgee, and Bradshaw ( Veterinary 
Journal) December, 1875) are then quoted. 
