382 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY' CONGRESS. 
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“Phthisis is so common a disease that it deserves before any 
other ailment the name of universal panzootic. 
“This disease not only touches the preservation of our cattle, but 
also the health of man. If we succeed in solving the ques¬ 
tion, we shall have reached a noble object, that of protecting at 
the same time the prosperity and health of the public. Such re¬ 
sults will seem to us our just reward in the esteem, consideration 
and gratitude of the whole world.” 
These remarks were received with great applause. 
The General Secretary, Prof. Wehenkel, taking into considera¬ 
tion the shortness of the time for a discussion worthy of the subject, 
proposed the following: “ This Congress, fully aware of the im¬ 
portance of the question of tubercular phthisis, presented for their 
discussion, believes that, considering the want of time for proper 
attention to the subject, in accordance with its importance, it will 
be proper to place the question first in the order of the day for 
the next Congress. In so doing the thought of members will 
from this day become more generally directed to the question and 
new and numerous arguments will be added to those already so 
well stated by Mr. Lydtin.” 
The President called for a vote on the resolution : 
Mr. Larmet remarked that the question is not now sufficiently 
ripe to be properly treated from a scientific point of view, but he 
believed that it might be discussed in a practical sense, and he 
asked Congress to decide that it is prudent to abstain from 
eating the meat obtained from a tuberculous animal. 
Mr. Piitz thought that the question of whether or not the 
meat in this case can be used is purely a medical one; he added 
that at a former Congress, held in Germany, no decision was 
reached on that point. 
Mr. Quivogne considered it not possible to wait in this case. 
Lyon, from which he was delegated, waits for the opinions of 
Congress on this subject. As a practical point one may recog¬ 
nize a general and a local tuberculosis, and he asked what is to 
be done in either case ? 
The President called for a solution of the question. 
Mr. Rossignol agreed with Mr. Quivogne. He asked what is 
