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VII .— The Prevention of Swine Epizooties. 
(1) Infectious diseases of swine must be combatted separately, by 
veterinary police, in such a way that swine plague and rouget should 
be dealt with on different lines. 
(2) The veterinary police regulations against swine plague should 
consist chiefly in the slaughter of sick pigs and in the disinfection of 
the infected yards. Slaughter is specially recommended in those dis¬ 
tricts, which are only temporarily infected with the plague. 
The various methods of preventive inoculation, which have not yet 
been sufficiently tested in the case of either of these diseases, are only 
recommended for those districts, in which the swine diseases have thor¬ 
oughly established themselves. 
(3) In order to combat rouget among swine, besides the general 
measures of sanitary police, it is to be recommended that all animals 
exposed to the contagion should be inoculated ; the inoculation should 
take place under the surveillance of the veterinary police. 
Lastly, it is desirable that vaccination should be compulsory in 
places wdiere rouget is constantly reappearing. 
VIII. — The Exte?isio7i of Veterinary Instruction. 
The Congress resolves: 
(1) That the students of veterinary medicine ought to possess the 
certificate of university maturity ; 
(2) That the duration of the studies ought to be at least 8 terms ; 
(3) To impress upon the instruction a more practical direction ; 
(4) That the study of veterinary medicine ought to extend to all ani¬ 
mals useful for agriculture; 
(5) That it will be created in the veterinary schools of the sanitary 
institutes intended for the instruction and experimental study of etiol¬ 
ogy and prophylaxy of diseases and particularly of epizooties ; 
(6) That the instruction of meat inspection requires a special instruc¬ 
tion of a practical character in a public slaughter house. 
IX. — Determination of the Time a?id the Place of the Eighth Congress. 
The next Congress will take place in 1905 at Budapest. The adher¬ 
ents of the Seventh Congress, that have come from the said city, will be 
entrusted with the organization of the Eighth. 
And now my share of the work is completed. To enter 
into the minute deliberation of the* subjects treated would 
carry me beyond the limit that the Review can allow me, but I 
hope that, incomplete as it is, this concise resume may be suffi¬ 
cient to show that the American veterinary profession has taken 
its place among all future international veterinary gatherings 
and secured the proper place that is due to her. A. R. 
A Two-Year Veterinary College has been started at 
Nashville, with a non-graduate as promoter. The announce¬ 
ment gave names of prominent local veterinarians in the fac¬ 
ulty, which they promptly disclaimed. If the proposition was 
not amusing it would be disgusting. 
