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FOURTH INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS. 
27th.—An efficient organization of the veterinary service 
forms the best guarantee of the application of the various 
measures above mentioned. 
28th.—A last and powerful means of securing the extinction 
of contagious pleuro-pneumonia is to adopt the same measures in 
relation to the contagious diseases of animals that were employed 
for the destruction of the phylloxera: to form an international 
convention which should examine and indicate the essential 
elements forming the basis of the legislation which each country 
has been compelled by the consideration of its own interests to 
adopt. 
ON THE QUESTION OF EDUCATION IN VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
Propositions of the Report of Messrs. Muller and Wietz. 
I. 
1st.—The preparatory branches required for the study of 
veterinary medicine should be the same as those required in the 
student of human medicine. 
2d.—As, for various reasons, this first principle cannot be 
practically enforced, we ought at least to require that persons 
desiring to undertake the study of veterinary medicine should 
possess the acquirements necessary to secure admission to the 
higher classes of the better grade of institutions designed to 
impart those branches of .knowledge which by common consent 
constitute a good ordinary education. 
3d.—Persons who have not enjoyed the usual facilities for 
education should give evidence, at a special examination, of the 
possession of an amount of knowledge corresponding to that of 
the pupils in our common schools. This examination should take 
place before a jury composed of persons having no connection 
with the veterinary school, or interest in its results. 
II. 
There is no reason for the existence of inequalities of grades 
and degrees among veterinary practitioners, involving or imply¬ 
ing a classification in respect to studies and acquirements. 
