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even mouths, and at last disappear very slowly. Emphysematous 
and watery vesicles constitute the third group. They first appear 
on the udder in the form of red spots, which are rapidly trans¬ 
formed into vesicles ranging in size from a pea to a cherry, but 
destitute of areola and umbilicus. They contain a serous or pur¬ 
ulent fluid, are readily broken, and are covered by very thin 
crusts, which soon fall off. Frequently their contents are quickly 
absorbed, leaving only an empty epidermic envelope, which con¬ 
stitutes the emphysematous pock. They pass through all their 
phases within five or six days. 
Such is cow-pox, as we know it at the present day , and its 
course is exactly that of human vaccination with Jennerian vac¬ 
cine, wdiicli is in reality nothing more or less than the cow-pox 
transmitted through very many successive generations of man¬ 
kind. The vesicles of vaccinia has been simply transferred from 
the cow’s udder or teats to the human arm—there is nothing what¬ 
ever of small-pox in it. 
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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF HYGIENE AT 
T GRIN-VETERINARY SECTION. 
President—Mr. Vallada. Vice-Presidents — M.M. Basso, (Turin); Cocconi, 
(Rome); Prof. Nocard, (Alfort); Dr. E. Perrin, (Paris). 
[A.) Mr. Felix, of Bucharest, presented a publication on the 
utility of a sanitary inspection of meat. 
After long discussion the following resolution was adopted: 
1st—That a veterinary service of inspections of meat be es¬ 
tablished whenever there is an abattoir or slaughter house. 
2d—That the inspections be made on living animals and re¬ 
peated after death. 
3d—That popular instruction be given to persuade the people 
that insufficiently cooked meat may sometimes be dangerous. 
