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rhagic septicemia, F. S. H. Baldrey (Jour. Trop. Vet. Sci-., 5 {1910), No. 4, 

 pp. 592-594)- — These experiments, which were conducted with bulls and rab- 

 bits, resulted in demonstrating that a vaccine for hemorrhagic septicemia should 

 contain dead organisms only, and no broth toxin. The latter is excluded be- 

 cause it sets up an irritation which prolongs the negative phase and gives 

 the animal unnecessary pain. A further test showed that after 10 months 

 the hemorrhagic septicemia vaccine depreciated 50 per cent in value. The 

 disease is very analogous to human plague. 



Anaplasmosis in donkeys, A. Balfour (Jour. Compar. Path, and Ther., 24 

 {1911), No. 1, pp. 44-'n, f'9- 1)- — The author reports that in addition to cattle 

 he has found marginal points to occur in large numbers in the blood of a num- 

 ber of donkeys in the Sudan, one of which was suffering from piroplasmosis. 

 RMpicephalus evertsi was found upon donkeys when they arrived in Khartum 

 and the author is of the opinion that this tick will be found to convey the 

 infection. 



Some observations on the subject of marg'inal points, W. Jowett {Jour. 

 Compar. Path, and Ther., .i-'i {1911), No. 1, pp. 40-'i-'i, figs. ^).— The author 

 records the discovery of coccus-like bodies, or marginal ix>ints, in cats and 

 rats, and also in blood films prepared from cases of equine piroplasmosis in 

 Cape Colony. 



Piroplasmosis in India, F. S. H. Baldrey {Jour. Trop. Vet. ScL, 5 {1910), 

 No. 4, PP- 569-579, pi. 1, dgms. 3). — ^An account based on various reports made 

 by officers of the veterinary department in India, is given. Attention is called 

 to the fact that what appears to be the same species of Piroplasma as that 

 recently described by Patton as /•. gibsoni (E. S. R., 23, p. 792) was described 

 in 190.3 by Lingard as P. tropicus. 



A list of 33 titles referred to is appended. 



Atoxyl in the treatment of bovine and ovine piroplasmosis, Udrisky 

 (Arhiva Vet., 7 {1910), No. 4, pp. 223-227 ) .—Sheep suffering from piroplas- 

 mosis received 6 doses of 200 mg. of atoxyl (in 10 cc. of distilled water) 

 subcutaneously in 2 series of 3 consecutive days, separated by an interval 

 of 1 day. But 1 of 11 full-grcwn sheep treated in this manner succumbed to 

 the disease, and as favorable results followed the administration, in a similar 

 manner, of 1 or Ih gm. of atoxyl to bovines. 



A contribution on the treatment of canine piroplasmosis with trypanblue, 

 H. BUMANN {Ztschr. Hyg. u. Infektiomkrank., 67 {1910), No. 2, pp. 201-224, 

 figs. 13). — A brief review of the literature relating to the use of this dye is 

 followed by a report of experiments personally conducted. 



The paper includes a bibliography of 29 titles. 



Canine piroplasmosis in Russia, W. L. YAfeiMorr {Bui. Soc. Path. Exot., 

 4 {1911), No. 2, pp; 110-112). — The author reports the occurrence of piroplas- 

 mosis in a dog at St. Petersburg. In inoculation experiments with 14 dogs 

 the incubation i>eriod was found to vary from 2 to 7 days. 



Immunizing' cattle against anticattle-plague serum, E. H. Ruediger {Phil- 

 ippine Jour. Sci., B. Med. 8ci., 4 {1909), No. 5, pp. 353-361, charts 9).— "Ap- 

 parently anticattle-plague serum, when repeatedly injected under the skin of 

 healthy, nonimmune bullocks, does not lead to the production of anti-immune 

 bodies. The more serum injected into an animal the milder is the attack of 

 cattle plague which follows inoculation with virulent blood. In this respect 

 the immunity reactions in cattle plague are similar to those observed in many 

 infections of known bacterial origin." 



Immunizing against streptococcic infection, with particular reference to 

 strangles, A. Marxer (Ztschr. Infcktionskrank. u. Hyg. Haustiere, 8 {1910), 

 No. 4- -5, pp. 322-346; a&s. in ZentU. Biochem. u. Biophys., 11 {1910), No. 1, 



