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for debate, with a request that the Review will give it promi¬ 
nence. We have already made mention of this important event, 
but cheerfully subjoin the full text of Dr. Dydtin’s circular 
letter, in the hope that as many American delegates as possible 
may attend. In the light of recent progress in the recognition 
of veterinarians by National, State and municipal governments 
in the capacity of sanitary attaches, the profession owes it to 
itself to have representatives at Baden-Baden in 1899. Surely 
the United States Bureau of Animal Industry will send one or 
more delegates, and the United States Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation can ill afford to fail to have a member or two present. 
The circular is as follows : 
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF VETERINARY SUR¬ 
GEONS AT BADEN-BADEN, 1899. 
In accordance with the resolution of the Sixth International 
Congress of Veterinary Surgeons, held at Berne in 1895, 
Seventh Congress will take place at Baden-Baden in the year 
1899. The veterinary surgeons of Baden are entrusted with 
the carrying out of the arrangements. With the consent of an 
international meeting held at Stuttgart in June, 1896, they have 
formed the undersigned Committee of Management, which has 
resolved to hold the Congress in Baden-Baden in the first half 
of August, 1899. 
The programme is as follows : 
a. Precautionary measures against the spread of epidemic dis¬ 
eases in consequence of international trade in animals ; 
b. The prevention of tuberculosis among domestic animals 
and the use of the flesh and milk of animals sufferinor from this 
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disease, and, connected with this, the latest demands for an 
effectual meat inspection; 
c. The prevention of foot-and-mouth disease ; 
d. The prevention of swine fever ; 
e. The forwarding of veterinary science, especially by the 
erection of institutions for experiments in diseases and by found¬ 
ing chairs of comparative medicine in colleges for veterinary 
surgeons ; 
f. Conclusion of the work of the drawing-up of a common 
nomenclature in veterinary medicine ; 
g. Official veterinarism. 
