282 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



" Experiments were also made on rabbits. Amyl acetate was giveu by mouth 

 in aqueous suspension or dissolved in neutral olive oil. Five cc. of amyl acetate 

 given by mouth to rabbits weighing about 1.500 gm. did not produce any symp- 

 toms in any of the animals experimented upon, except one in which the dose 

 proved fatal within 24 bours after its administration. 



" The effect of amyl acetate on blood pressure was studied in dogs. One cc. 

 injected directly into the circulation within 25 seconds caused a fall of blood 

 pressure amounting to 56 per cent. When the vagi were eliminated the fall of 

 blood pressure was still greater. In both instances there was a marked slowing 

 of the pulse." 



Notes on Crotalaria burkeana and other leguminous plants causing disease 

 in stock, J. Burtt-Davy (So. African Jour. Sci., 7 {1911), No. 6, lyp. 269-277).— 

 In addition to an account of C. burlceana, a native plant of the Transvaal and 

 the disease which it causes, known to farmers as " styfziekte," brief mention 

 is made of several other plants causing neuritic troubles. 



Beport on the operations of the veterinary sanitary service of Paris and 

 the Department of the Seine for the year 1909, H. Martel {Rap. Op^r. Serv. 

 Y4t. Sanit. Paris et D&pt. Seim,e, 1909, pp. 330, figs. i7).— Part 1 of this volume 

 reports on the occurrence of contagious diseases (pp. 1-77) ; part 2 on meat 

 inspection (pp. 78-236) ; part 3 on the inspection of milk (pp. 237-250) ; part 4 

 on the inspection of several classes of establishments, including abattoirs, etc. 

 (pp. 251-254) ; and part 5 on work of the laboratories (pp. 255-322). Statis- 

 tical data, etc., are given on rabies, tuberculosis, glanders and farcy, hog 

 cholera, and charbon. 



Beport of the chief veterinary surgeon, J. M. Sinclair {South. Rhodesia 

 Rpt. Dir. Agr., 1909, pp. 25-31). — The author here reports on the occurrence 

 of stock diseases during the calendar year 1909. 



Tropical diseases of animals {Trans. IX. Internat. Vet. Cong. The Hague, 

 Jf {1909), pp. 212-244). — This report includes papers by Dschunkowsky on the 

 protozoan diseases of animals in Transcaucasia ; by S. Luhs on the piroplas- 

 mosis of the hedgehog, due to Piroplasrna erinacei, that occurs in the vicinity 

 of the Surnabad rinderpest-serum station, and brief mention of piroplasmosis 

 in the fox due to P. vulpis; and by Tartakowsky on the etiology and pathology 

 of spirochetosis of geese and on piroplasmosis of the bat Vespcrtilio nootula 

 and the agent that transmits it (thought to be Argas vespertilionis) . See also 

 a previous note (E. S. R., 22, p. 386). 



The relation between hypersensitiveness and immunity, E. Friedberger 

 {Berlin. Klin. Wchnschr., 47 {1910), No. 32, pp. 1490-1492; Deut. Med. Wchnschr., 

 37 {1911), No. 11, pp. 481-487, dgms. 5; ahs. in Ztschr. Immunitdtsf. u. Expt. 

 Ther., II, Ref., 3 {1910), No. 11, pp. 979, 980).— According to this work, immunity 

 and anaphylaxis are not antagonistic to one another, the only difference being 

 in the end effects. This is due to the different properties of the antigens in 

 question and the different quantitative relations. 



The problem of protein anaphylaxis, H. Pfeiffer {Das Prohlem dcr Eiwcis- 

 sanuphylaxie. Jena, 1910, pp. 231, dgms. 7). — This work, which has particular 

 reference to the problems of anaphylaxis for forensic purposes, contains the 

 following chapters : Historical review ; sensitization and the preanaphylactic 

 phenomena; i-einjection ; active anaphylaxis; antianaphylaxis; passive ana- 

 phylaxis and the method for measuring the anaphylactic immune bodies; test 

 tube experiments; the significance of anaphylaxis for the practical differentia- 

 tion of proteins; and some practical examples in anaphylaxis. A bibliography 

 is appended. 



The parenteral introduction of proteins, V. C. Vaughan, J. G. Gumming, and 

 C. B. McGlumphy {Ztschr. Immunitdtsf. u. Expt. Ther., J, Orig., 9 {1911), No. 



