766 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
intervals, vouchsafed to humanity to guide or to dazzle by 
their brilliancy; but many, if not all, may be earnest, 
patient, and enlightened workers in the field of observation, 
from which point we must ever consent to start in any true 
advance in pathological inquiry. 
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. 
(Continued from p. 683.) 
It must be a matter of congratulation to all members of 
our profession that a veterinary surgeon has been successful 
in the Bennet-Stanford competition. M. Bourrel , senior, 
of Paris, is the gentleman to whom we are indebted for 
breaking a lance on our behalf, and while we all congratu¬ 
late him on his well-deserved success, we must feel glad 
that we have had so doughty a champion. But stern are 
the decrees of fate ! She in one hand carries a palm, in the 
other a rod ; while M. Bourrel, senior, was awaiting the 
decision about his essay on rabies, that fearful disease was 
in a state of incubation in the system of Pierre-Rose Bour¬ 
rel, his nephew ; and nearly three months after the fatal 
bite this young veterinarian died of hydrophobia. In 
Belgium, the ee National Science Congress on Hygiene and 
Public Medicine , among other resolutions, passed one con¬ 
cerning the transmissibility and action of certain morbid 
products, notably tubercle and that of aphthous stomatitis, 
with which the edible parts of our meat-supplying animals 
may be impregnated; and another concerning the measures 
to be taken by the authorities and consumers to mitigate or 
prevent ill effects. These interesting and important ques¬ 
tions were brought forward by our honored confrere, M. 
Hugues. These resolutions prayed the government:— 
(1) To consider the organisation of a department for the 
inspection of provisions of animal origin. (£) To use its 
influence or its authority with the consumers to persuade 
or compel them to adopt the system of public abattoirs 
(slaughter-houses).” It is satisfactory to see that this Con¬ 
gress has thoroughly agreed on so important a matter with 
that of veterinary surgeons, and it is to be hoped that the 
government will act under the influence of the enlightened 
