378 EXPEKIMENT STATION KECOED. 



was actually only one animal that died from rinderpest uncomplicated with 

 any other disease. Seven died from rinderpest complicated with piroplasmosis 

 and one from uremia." 



The production and concentration of a serum for Rocky Mountain spotted 

 fever, P. G. Heinemann and J. J. Mooke {Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 57 (1911), 

 No. 3, p. 198). — The serum was produced by injecting 2 horses with the spotted 

 fever virus. 



The concentration of the virus thus obtained was found to vary with the 

 animal infected. Successful attempts were made in concentrating the serum 

 from the horse by the same method usually employed for diphtheric antitoxin. 

 " The preliminary experiments on the value of immune horse serum as a cura- 

 tive agent were encouraging. They will be continued in the near future." 



Treatment of tetanus with carbolic acid, J. Hajnal (Allatorvosi Lapok, 33 

 (1910), No. 15, pp. 173-175; ahs. in Berlin. Tierdrztl. Wchnschr., 27 {1911), 

 No. 16, p. 292). — This form of treatment, which was first recommended by 

 Baccelli for man, was tried by the author on a pregnant mare. At the outset 

 20 gm. of a 2 per cent solution of carbolic acid was given daily, and after 2 

 weeks the toxic spasms ceased. Fifteen days after the first symptoms appeared 

 the animal foaled. The action of carbolic acid upon nerve tissue seemed to be 

 in this case antitoxic. 



The method was also used successfully in the case of umbilical infection in 

 a suckling foal, to which the author gave 10 gm. of a 2 per cent solution sub- 

 cutaneously. The point of infection was treated also with a 3 per cent carbolic 

 acid solution, as well as per rectum with a 0.5 per cent solution. 



In regard to the fixation of tetanus toxin, S. Loewe {Biochetn. Ztschr., 33 

 (1911), No. 1-3, pp. 225-246). — In addition to brain substance the author 

 found that erythrocytes and bone marrow will bind tetanus toxin. The power 

 to fix toxin decreases considerably when the fixing substance is heated. The 

 gray substance of the brain was found to have a greater fixing property than 

 the white substance, although the fixing property differed with the locality 

 from which it was taken. 



Tuberculosis (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui 473, pp. 23, figs. 13; Ottaiva: 

 Oovt., 1911, pp. 31, 2}l-s. 13). — This is a plain statement of facts regarding tuber- 

 culosis, especially prepared for farmers and others interested in live stock by 

 the international commission of the American Veterinary Medical Associa- 

 tion on the control of bovine tuberculosis. The publication is copiously illus- 

 trated with pictures of diseased animals and pathological prei^arations from 

 such stock. 



Combating tuberculosis in Belgium, G. Mtjllie (Ann. MM. V6t., 59 (1910), 

 No. 12, pp. 723-740). — A report in regard to the activities in Belgium for the 

 past 15 years. 



Tuberculosis and tuberculin testing in the Dutch Indies, L. De Blieck 

 and H. J. Smit (Meded. Dept. Landh. [Duteh East Indies], 1911, No. 2, pp. 

 11). — A discussion in regard to the occurrence of tuberculosis in the East 

 Indian buffalo and its detection with the tuberculin reaction. 



Experimental transference of tuberculosis from man to bovines, A. Eber 

 (Ztschr. InfeMionslcrank. u. Hyg. Haustiere, 4 (1908), No. 5-6, pp. 374-412; 

 als. in Berlin. Tierdrztl. Wchnschr., 27 (1911), No. 31, p. 556).— Continuing 

 previous work (E. S. R., 18, p. 278; 20, p. 380) an attempt was made to convey 

 infection from 8 cases of human tuberculosis (in 3- cases from children) to 

 bovines. Two strains of the bacilli out of the 8 examined were of the bovine 

 type, in 4 cases the disease in man was produced by the human type of bacillus 

 (in 1 instance with certainty and in 3 presumably so), and in the 2 remaining 

 cases the classification was difficult. 



