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cattle resembles in all respects laminitis in horses, in fact it may be called 

 ' laminitis in cattle.' Exi)eriments undertaken at 2 different places, Barberton 

 and Zeerust, 1 in the eastern and 1 in the western part of the Transvaal under 

 opposite climatical and tellurical conditions, show that Ciotalaria hurkcana 

 is the cause of stiff-sickness." 



Veterinary notes (Jour. Southeast. Agr. Col. Wye, 1909, No. 18, pp. 363- 

 387). — Notes are presented on "struck" sheep experiments, 1902-1909, and the 

 prevention of parasitic diseases of sheep, by T. W. Cave, and a system of crop- 

 ping for providing green food for lambs for the prevention of lamb diseases, by 

 B. N. Wale. 



Some neglected sheep diseases of New South Wales, M. Henry and A. E, 

 Massy (Agr. Gaz. A. -S'. Wales, 22 {1911), No. 2, pp. 109-117, map i).— The 

 authors here record what is known of so-called black disease, louping ill, and 

 staggers, in order to demonstrate the need of further investigations and to 

 serve as a basis for such. 



A minute on sheep diseases, It. Willmot {Agr. and Stock Dept., Tasmania, 

 Bui. 16, 1910, pp. 16). — The author here considers braxy and louping ill. 



Johne's disease in sheep, S. Stockman {Jour. Compar. Path, and Ther., 24 

 {1911), No. 1, pp. 66-69, fig. 1). — The author considers the observations here 

 reported to justify the statement "that sheep may under natural conditions 

 become infected with Johne's disease and that this animal must now be consid- 

 ered! a factor in the epizootiology of this affection. They do not, however, war- 

 rant the conclusion that the disease known as ' scrapie ' is a form of Johne's 

 disease, as it is possible, of course, that 2 different diseases may sometimes 

 affect the same animals." 



Serovaccination against hog erysipelas, Scroll {Rev. G6n. M6d. V4t., 16 

 {1910), No. 182, pp. 65-69). — This is a report of serovaccination work against 

 hog erpsipelas in Belgium. In ]9<J3 there were 4,870 vaccinations and in 1909, 

 84,SGG. The results obtained were excellent. 



Hog cholera, L. Van Es {Amer. Vet. Rev., 38 {1911), No. J,, pp. J,89-501).— 

 A discussion of the etiology, symptoms, pathology, and serum treatment of 

 this disease. 



The swamp fever of horses, J, L. Todd and S. B. Wolbach {Jour. Med. Re- 

 seareh, 2.; {1911), No. 1, pp. 213-21,2, dgm. i).— The results are given of ob- 

 servations on 7 cases of swamp fever, 5 cases of which were artificially pro- 

 duced by direct inoculation. In this work the symptoms and the gross patho- 

 logical and histo-pathological findings of the organs are reported. All the sub- 

 jects with one exception came to autopsy. 



The ring bodies of Ballah were noted in all the horses, but similar bodies 

 could be seen by the authors in the liver of a normal dog. Sarcosporidia and 

 Sclerostomtim equinum or S. tctracantlium were almost always present. 



According to the authors, the cases were too few in number to make it possi- 

 ble to draw definite conclusions from them. The results do not differ from 

 those obtained by previous observers ; consequently, the observations will merely 

 serve to confirm those of others who have preceded them in studying the 

 disease. A bibliography is appended. 



The chemotherapeutic treatment of equine influenza, Rips (Berlin. 

 Tierarztl. Wchnschr., 27 {1911), No. 7, p. 113). — When a single injection of a 

 full dose (0.01 gm. per kilogram of body weight) of a warm to blood-warm, 

 dilute alkaline solution of salvarsan ( Ehrlich-Hata 606) was given to a horse 

 in the first stages of influenza, it was noted that this remedy could easily cope 

 with the progress of the disease. Three gm. of salvarsan in 1,500 gm. of solu- 

 tion was generally found sufficient for a horse of medium weight. The later 

 stages of the disease are also favorably influenced by this remedy. 



