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hour after injection does not reacli and exceed 2.5° over the highest initial 

 temperature within a normal range, and is unaccompanied by a definite typical 

 reactionary swelling at seat of inoculation or marked constitutional disturb- 

 ance, more especially where the acme has been reached before the twelfth hour 

 after injection and begins thereafter to recede to the normal range, it is not a 

 characteristic reaction from glanders infection. . . . When the thermal reaction 

 reaches and exceeds 2.5° with the rise of temperature maintained from 8 to 20 

 hours after injection, presenting the highest peak from the twelfth to the 

 eighteenth hour, associated with a reactionary infiltration at seat of injection, 

 even in the absence of any marked constitutional or organic disturbance, it 

 indicates a glanders infection." 



Malta fever in France, Lageiffoul and Roger (Cotnpt. Bend. Acad. Sd. 

 [Paris], 150 (1910), No. 12, pp. 8ob-802; ahs. in Ztschr. Inwiunitdtsf. u. Expt. 

 Ther., II, Rcf., 2 (1910), No. IS-Uf, pp. 328, 329).— Malta fever occurs in France 

 quite frequently, and not only in the southern departments (Aude, Bouches-du- 

 Rhone, Vauchise, Herault, and Gard) but also occasionally in the northern 

 part of France (Lyon and Paris). 



The diagnoses in these cases in man were made chiefly on the basis of the 

 agglutination test. The direct etiological factor in most instances was the in- 

 gestion of infected goat's milk. Some of the goats which yielded this milk 

 aborted, while others gave a positive agglutination test. 



The rinderpest problem, A. R. Ward (Philippine Agr. Rev. [English Ed.], 4 

 (1911), No. 7, pp. SSTS'iS). — ^A discussion of the rinderpest problem in the 

 Philippine Islands. It is stated that the disease is prevalent in 71 municipali- 

 ties in 20 Provinces in these islands. 



In regard to rinderpest in east Asia, M. Eggebeecht (Ztschr. Infektions- 

 Icrank. u. Hyg. Haustiere, 7 (1910), No. 1-2, pp. 5^-70, pis. 6; abs. in Berlin. 

 Tierdrztl. Wchnschr., 26 (1910), No. 1,9, pp. 975, 976).— A discussion of the 

 epizootiology, symptoms, and prognosis of rinderpest, and the results of cura- 

 tive and protective vaccination as carried on by the author against this disease 

 in the German possessions of east Asia. 



Vaccination against rinderpest, Russland (Veroffentl. K. Osndhtsamt., 34 

 (1910), No. 5, pp. 120, 121; abs. in Ztschr. Imnvunitdtsf. u. Expt. Ther., II, Ref., 

 2 (1910), No. 6, p. //8). — Foi" the purpose of combating rinderpest, which exists 

 in the Asiatic possessions of Germany, sera have been obtained from oxen 

 artificially immunized previously. The method used is the serum-simultaneous 

 method in which the animals receive 3 cc. of virulent blood from diseased ani- 

 mals and then a corresix»nding amount of the serum in the shoulder or under 

 the skin of the neck. 



The percentage of loss when using the above procedure was from 1 to 2. 

 As a curative treatment the serum method is rarely used. 



Inoculation against rinderpest in India by the serum simultaneous method, 

 R. C. Cochrane (Jour. Trop. Vet. 8ci., 6 (1911), No. 2, pp. 134-155, charts 

 10). — From this work with the serum simultaneous method and rinderpest in 

 various places in India it is noted that apparently not so much danger of 

 spreading the disease exists as is generally supposed, providing the usual pre- 

 cautions (disinfection, etc.) are taken. Taking the figures obtained for all of 

 the animals inoculated (1,028) and which represent the various classes of 

 military cattle in India, the following could be noted : " 27.8 per cent as rep- 

 resented by the nonreactions had active immunity ; 34.2 per cent as represented 

 by the mild reactions had inherited immunity to a large degree; 38 per cent 

 as represented by severe reactions and deaths had no immunity, active or in- 

 herited, and it is probable that these animals, if attacked by the disease natur- 

 ally, and not treated with serum, would die." " During these inoculations there 



