American Veterinary Review. 
JUNE, 1898. 
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EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICEES. 
TUBERCULOSIS.-VARIOLA.—AMERICAN HORSES. 
The Society of the Agriculteurs of France is the most 
important of its kind in that country, its membership is very 
large, and in it are found some of the most intelligent workers 
in behalf of agriculture. A general meeting is held annually, 
when subjects of importance and of interest to the whole com¬ 
munity are freely discussed. At the last reunion, which took 
place in the month of March, three subjects received attention, 
of which two are interesting to the readers of the Review as 
veterinarians, and a third which has more relation to American 
trade. Of the former, one is on the subject of tuberculosis. 
This affection is at present engaging very much the attention 
of sanitary veterinarians all over the world, and, while the 
laws here regulating their duties are pretty explicit, there exist 
still in them some discrepancies. It is to fill these defects that 
the general government had been called upon to issue more 
stringent laws, by the presentation of the following, offered 
under the shape of a wish : “ That the authorities resort to all 
measures likely to prevent the spreading of tuberculosis among 
onr animals, in applying the principle of indemnity in its 
widest sense.” Besides this recommendation of larger indem¬ 
nity, it means to refer also to obligatory tubercnlination, 
for herds where one single case has been detected. This would 
certainly be very advantageous in diminishing the dangers of 
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