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East Coast fever, R. W. Dixox {Agr. Jour. Cape Good Hope, 36 {1910), No. 

 1, pp. IU-26). — A general account of this affection including preventive and 

 remedial treatment. 



East Coast fever (Agr. Jour. Cape Good Hope, 36 {1910), No. 2, pp. 219- 

 22Jf). — A statement of measures taken to safeguard the Cape of Good Hope 

 Colony against the introduction of East Coast fever from the adjoining colonies 

 of Natal and Transvaal. See also a previous note (E. S. U., 22, p. 581). 



Spirochetosis of bovines in South Annam, H. Schein (Bid. Soe. Path. Exot., 

 3 (1910). Xo. 2, pp. 73-75). — A spirochetosis has been found to occur in South 

 Annaui. It appears to be due to the spirochete (Spiroehwta thcileri) found by 

 Theiler in the Transvaal and by Heanley at Hongkong. 



The Australian camel trade and trypanosomiasis, S. G. Ha.ji (Jotir. Trop. 

 Vet. 8ci., 5 (1910), No. 1, pp. 72-88). — Following a discussion of the occurrence 

 of surra in camels in Australia the author reports upon several cases which 

 were discovered in the province of Sind during lOOS-9. This is the Indian 

 province from which camels were imported into Australia, in several of which 

 Tri/panosoiini rransi were discovered, as previously noted <K. S. K.. 21, p. 78). 



Summary of first series of experiments on treatment of surra in camels, 

 A. S. Leese (Jour. Trop. Vet. ScL, 5 (1910), No. 1. pp. .57-6'/). — Experiments 

 are reported in which tartar emetic alone, tartar emetic and atoxyl alternately, 

 and tartar emetic alone but followed by a short course of mercury bichlorid 

 alone, were administered. 



No assistance toward ultimate recovery was afforded Ity the last-named treat- 

 ment, and that with tartar emetic and atoxyl alternately gave no better results 

 than the use of tartar emetic alone. As trypanosomes returned on the day 

 following the last intravenous injection of bichlorid of mercury, it appears that 

 the mercury did not have any effect upon them. 



Note on plague infection in a wood rat (Neotoma fuscipes anectens), W. C. 

 RucKER (Puh. Health and Mar. Hosp. Sere. U. S., Pub. Health /^/J^s•., 25 (1910), 

 No. 1, pp. 1, 2). — A wood rat. captured in Alameda County, Cal., October 17, 

 1909, and found to be infected with bubonic plague, is believed to be the first 

 plague-infected wood rat ever discovered. Thus it seems that the wood rat may 

 act as an intermediary in the transmission of the disease to other mammals. 

 The manner in which the infection was conveyed to this rat is not known, as 

 wood rats do not ordinarily come in contact with squirrels. Notes are included 

 on the habits and distribution of this and related species. 



Investigations concerning Rocky Mountain fever, H. T. Ricketts (But. 

 Johns Hopkins Hosp., 20 (1909), No. 218, pp. 151, i.52).— This is the report of 

 an address before the Johns Hopkins Medical Society. January 4, 1909, in which 

 the investigations previously noted (E. S. R., 21, p. 682) are discussed. 



Some aspects of Rocky Mountain spotted fever as shown by recent inves- 

 tigations, H. T. Ricketts (Med. Ree. [N . Y.], 76 (1909), No. 21, pp. 8J,3-855).— 

 This is the Wesley M. Carpenter lecture of the New York Academy of Medicine 

 for 1909. 



As regards severity, the author recognizes 2 different types, the mild and the 

 severe. In western Montana the disease is almost uniformly of a very severe 

 character, the mortality ranging from 65 per cent to about 90 per cent. In 

 Idaho, the death rate rarely rises above 5 per cent. It is said that both Der- 

 inaeentor vcnustus and D. modestus will transmit the Montana di.sease to the 

 guinea pig and that D. venustus will also tran.smit the Idaho disease. Experi- 

 ence has shown that the larvfe and nymphs as well as the adults acquire and 

 transmit spotted fever. 



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