374 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



(jlinics for large and small domestic animals, ambulance service, the pathologic 

 institute, and the hygienic institute. 



Annual report of the civil veterinary department, Burma, for the year 

 ending March 31, 1911, T. Rennie (Ann. Rpt. Civ. Vet. Dcpt. Burma, 1911, 

 pp. 5+29, pi. 1). — This report includes accounts of veterinary instruction, the 

 occurrence and treatment of contagious diseases, etc. 



Polyvalent hemolytic serum, J. Novpaczynski and J. Leclercq (Compt. 

 Rend. Soc. Biol. [Paris], 69 (1910), No. 33, pp. J,32, 433; ahs. in Centhl. Bakt. 

 [etc.], 1. AM., Ref., 49 (1911), No. 1-2, p. i2).— Polyvalent, hemolytic sera were 

 prepared by repeatedly Injecting subcutaneously the same amounts of ery- 

 throcytes from men, horses, bovines, sheep, and guinea pigs into rabbits. The 

 production of the hemolytic sera presented no difficulty, but this was not the 

 case with the hemolysin for the various kinds of blood coiiDuscles. The largest 

 amount of hemolysin was specific for horse's and sheep's blood, and the least 

 for the man, pig, and guinea pig. 



An apparatus for determining the viscosity of serum and other animal 

 fluids, L. VON LiEBEEMANN (BiocJiem. Ztschr., 33 (1911), No. 1-3, pp. 218-221, 

 figs. 3). — A description and illustration of an apparatus with which it is pos- 

 sible to determine the viscosity of fluids according to the methods of Coulomb, 

 Helmholtz, Margules, etc. 



Haptines in bovine serum and in cows' milk, H. Kopf ( Ubcr Haptine im 

 Rinderserum und in dcr Rindermilch. Inaug. Diss., Univ. Bern, 1909, pp. 24; 

 abs. in Milcliic. Zcnthh. 7 (19 tl). No. 2, pp. 94-95). — Hemolysis was never 

 found to be attained with cows' milk, and, according to this, complement is not 

 present. On the other hand, complement was always found to be present in 

 colostrum, and was most active directly after parturition. The diminution of 

 complement went hand in hand with the diminution of the cellular elements in 

 milk. In the first stage after parturition amboceptor was also present, but 

 after this it quickly vanishe<l. 



The preparation of antitoxin, E. J. Banzhaf (Bill. Johns Ilopldns Hosp., 

 22 (1911), No. 241, pp. 106-109). — This article has special reference to the 

 methods used for producing concentrated antitoxins by fractionation and the 

 quantitative changes in the protein in serum of horses in the course of im- 

 munization (B. S. R., 24, p. 779). 



Feeding and immunity in hemorrhagic septicemia and rinderpest, F. S. H. 

 Baldeey (Jour. Trop. Vet. Sci., 6 (1911), No. 2, pp. 158-168).— In regard to 

 hemorrhagic septicemia the author points out as a result of his experiments 

 that of " bovines which ingest virulent hemorrhagic septicemia material in 

 relatively small quantities 7.1 per cent contract the disease; of the remaining 

 92.9 per cent there are 84.7 per cent immune to it. The probable method of 

 contracting the disease by ingestion would appear to be when an injury to the 

 mucous membrane of the mouth has occurred and then infection amounts practi- 

 cally to a subcutaneous inoculation. This result has an imi)ortant bearing on 

 natural immunity and may account for the numbers of animals which in the 

 plains resist infection." 



The virus of rinderpest, according to the author, is contained in the red cor- 

 puscles and is not present in the plasma of the blood when hemolysis has not 

 taken place. Theiler's results are therefore confirmed. A clear serum was 

 incapable of producing the disease. 



Anaphylaxis produced by an alkali albumin or acid albumin, G. MoRUzzi 

 and G. Repaci (Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. [Paris], 68 (1910), No. 9, pp. 398, 399; 

 abs. in Ztschr. Immunitatsf. u. Expt. Ther., II, Ref., 2 (1910), No. 11, p. 212). — 

 AVhen guinea pigs were sensitized with alkali albumin obtained from serum 

 and then injected with a dialized serum, 55 per cent of them were rendered 



