The Fitzwygram Prize Competition
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ABSTRACTS AND REPORTS. influence on health, especially if the animals have been well nourished for a long time. The use of such flesh is permitted after seizure of the parts affected, but it must be sold as meat of mediocre quality and under strict control. At Wiesbaden a distinction is again made between cases in which the disease is generalised, and those in which there are only a few tubercles. The latter are sold under control of the authorities. It is the same at Cassel, Munster, Dusseldorf, Darmstadt, and Hanover. In Germany the flesh is classified into such as may be sold in the butcher's stall, and such as can only be sold at a public stall (named the "Freibank") and by a city employe. Tuberculosis of the costal pleura of the first degree is ranged in the second of these classes, and a ticket affixed to the flesh informs the public regarding the cause of its having been remitted to the "Freibank." The same regulations are in force in Alsace-Lorraine. In Austria, when the tuberculosis is limited to a local process, the flesh of good appearance, and the lymphatic glands of the chest and intestines are not affected, the meat is passed as healthy, the intestines alone being rejected. At Zurich the flesh of tuberculous animals is accepted if they are fat and the lesions are limited. At Brussels only the diseased organs (pleura, peritoneum, lungs, glands) are seized when the animals are in good condition, and when the tuberculosis has not arrived at an advanced period-when it is not generalised. THE FITZWYGRAM PRIZE COMPETITION. THE first prize (£50) in this competition for the year 1889 has been gained by Mr A. E. Mettam, M.R.C.V.S., Retford, Nottinghamshire, who obtained an aggregate of 980 marks out of a possible 1000 in the theoretical part of the examination, and full marks (1000) in the practical part. Mr Mettam graduated at the Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh, in May of the present year, after a very distinguished career as a student. SECOND CONGRESS FOR THE STUDY OF TUBERCULOSIS. THE Second Congress for the Study of Tuberculosis will be held in Paris at the end of the month of July 1890, under the presidency of Professor Villemin. The following are the questions put down for discussion:- I. The identity of tuberculosis of man with that of the bovidce, gallinacece, and other animals. 2. The bacterial and morbid accompaniments of tuberculosis. 3. The hospital acccommodation of tuberculous patients. 4. Agents capable of destroying Koch's bacillus and innocuous for the organism, from the point of view of the prophylaxis and therapeutics of human and animal tuberculosis.· , Intending members of the Congress should send their names and a postal order for 20 francs to the treasurer, M. G. Masson, 120 Boulevard St. Germain, Paris. Notices regarding communications should be addressed to the general secretary, Dr L. H. Petit, I I Rue Monge, Paris. PRINTEI> BY W. AND A. K. JOHNSTON, EDINBURGH AND LONDON.
Transcript of The Fitzwygram Prize Competition
ABSTRACTS AND REPORTS.
influence on health, especially if the animals have been well nourished for a long time. The use of such flesh is permitted after seizure of the parts affected, but it must be sold as meat of mediocre quality and under strict control.
At Wiesbaden a distinction is again made between cases in which the disease is generalised, and those in which there are only a few tubercles. The latter are sold under control of the authorities. It is the same at Cassel, Munster, Dusseldorf, Darmstadt, and Hanover.
In Germany the flesh is classified into such as may be sold in the butcher's stall, and such as can only be sold at a public stall (named the "Freibank") and by a city employe. Tuberculosis of the costal pleura of the first degree is ranged in the second of these classes, and a ticket affixed to the flesh informs the public regarding the cause of its having been remitted to the "Freibank." The same regulations are in force in Alsace-Lorraine.
In Austria, when the tuberculosis is limited to a local process, the flesh of good appearance, and the lymphatic glands of the chest and intestines are not affected, the meat is passed as healthy, the intestines alone being rejected.
At Zurich the flesh of tuberculous animals is accepted if they are fat and the lesions are limited.
At Brussels only the diseased organs (pleura, peritoneum, lungs, glands) are seized when the animals are in good condition, and when the tuberculosis has not arrived at an advanced period-when it is not generalised.
THE FITZWYGRAM PRIZE COMPETITION.
THE first prize (£50) in this competition for the year 1889 has been gained by Mr A. E. Mettam, M.R.C.V.S., Retford, Nottinghamshire, who obtained an aggregate of 980 marks out of a possible 1000 in the theoretical part of the examination, and full marks (1000) in the practical part. Mr Mettam graduated at the Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh, in May of the present year, after a very distinguished career as a student.
SECOND CONGRESS FOR THE STUDY OF TUBERCULOSIS.
THE Second Congress for the Study of Tuberculosis will be held in Paris at the end of the month of July 1890, under the presidency of Professor Villemin. The following are the questions put down for discussion:-
I. The identity of tuberculosis of man with that of the bovidce, gallinacece, and other animals.
2. The bacterial and morbid accompaniments of tuberculosis. 3. The hospital acccommodation of tuberculous patients. 4. Agents capable of destroying Koch's bacillus and innocuous for the
organism, from the point of view of the prophylaxis and therapeutics of human and animal tuberculosis.· ,
Intending members of the Congress should send their names and a postal order for 20 francs to the treasurer, M. G. Masson, 120 Boulevard St. Germain, Paris.
Notices regarding communications should be addressed to the general secretary, Dr L. H. Petit, I I Rue Monge, Paris.
PRINTEI> BY W. AND A. K. JOHNSTON, EDINBURGH AND LONDON.
