774 KXPI'MIIMENT STATION KE(;OKD. 



Annual report on the distribution of animal plagues in the German 

 Empire (Jahresbci: Yerhr. Tierseuch. Dent. Reiche, 20 {190.'>). piJ. Till + 210, 

 pis. Jf, figs. 19). — A discussion is pi-esented of the extent and distribution of all 

 the important animal diseases in the German Empire, including particularly 

 anthrax, blaclileg, rabies, glanders, foot-and-mouth disease, pleuro-pneumonia. 

 mange, tuberculosis, and infectious diseases of hogs and poultry. 



Details concerning the distribution of these diseases in different parts of the 

 German Empire are presented in tabular form. The recent meat inspection 

 regulations of Germany are given and a brief outline is presented of laws 

 relating to animal diseases in various countries. 



Notes from the Berlin medical clinic, E. Frohner (Monatsh. Prald. Tlcr- 

 heilk., IS (1906). No. 3-'i, pp. 134-137). — A number of cases which came under 

 the observation of the author are rejtorted. In one instance a case of tetanus 

 which had developed in a horse as a result of docking was not checked by the 

 amputation of the tail. The only result of this operation was to delay the death 

 of the animal for a few days. 



Notes are also given on intermittent lameness in horses as a result of sarcoma 

 in the mediastinal space, on chronic nephritis following hemoglobinuria, mercu- 

 ric poisoning in horses, abscesses of the spleen, and tuberculosis in the horse 

 complicated with pneumonia. This combination of tuberculosis and pneumonia 

 is of very rare occurrence. 



Veterinary hygienic principles applicable to stock in South Africa, A. 

 Theiler and C. E. Gray {Transvaal Ayr. .Jour.. 5 {1906), No. 17, pp. 96-110, pi. 

 1). — Attention is called to the highly contagious nature of sheep scab and the 

 ravages which it has caused. An improved sheep-dipping vat is illustrated and 

 described by T. H. Dale. Brief accounts are also presented of epizootic lym- 

 phangitis, hog clinlera. and mange in horses. 



New treatment of serious wounds and injuries, particularly synovial 

 lesions by crystallized boric acid, Busy {Rec. M(kl. Vet., S3 {1906), No. 

 17, pp. 623-627). — In the author's experience the best results have been obtained 

 from the use of pure boric acid by means of which a complete acidification and 

 saturation of wounds and surrounding tissue are accomplished in such a way 

 as to relieve the inflammation of the affected part. This treatment not only 

 allays inflammation but acts as a local anesthetic and is particularl.v well 

 adapted for use in cases of injury to the joints or tendons. 



An apparatus for the intravenous injection of large quantities of fluids, 

 W. Flatten (lUrliii. Tieriirztl. Wchnschr.. 1906, No. 38. pp. 697. 69S, fig. 1). — 

 The chief features of the apiiaratus described by the author are a graduated 

 glass cylinder, rubber tube, clamp for holding the apparatus firndy attached to 

 the animal's neck, and the needle which penetrates into the blood vessel. The 

 advantages claimed for the apparatus are that it is easily cleansed and that the 

 openition is simple. 



Tuberculosis: Its origin and extinction, W. 1'. Turner (London: Adam 

 d Charles Black, 1906, pp. XII + 06, pis. J,, figs. /,s').— A general plan, believed 

 by the author to be novel and original, is suggested for the eradication of 

 tuberculosis in man and animals. 



The author holds, in the first place, that tuberculosis in man is acquired 

 always by ingestion or inoculation and never by inhalation, and that the 

 disease is derived primarily from cattle. Cattle in turn are believed to be 

 infected from eating forage contaminated with the tubercle bacillus. It is 

 also maintained that the tubercle bacillus is naturally a saprophyte, and that 

 it only becomes pathogenic when protected from the actinic rays of the sun. 

 The author's scheme, therefore, for the total eradication of tuberculosis con- 



