11()2 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



VETERINAKY MEDICINE. 



Feeding stuffs and infection, L. Picollo {BoI. Agr. [Sao Paulo], S. set:, 

 1907, Xo. 1, pp. 20-27). — The susceptibility of the aliiueutary tract to infection 

 with anthrax, tuberculosis, and other diseases is briefly discussed with notes on 

 the economic importance of giving attention to the sanitary condition of feeding 

 stuffs. * 



A new yeast pathogenic to man and animals, F. Steinhaus (Centbl. Bakt, 

 [etc.], 1. AM., Orig., 43 {1006), No. 1, pp. Jf6-G9). — 8acc}i,aromyces membrano- 

 yenes was first obtained from the throat in a case of scarlet fever. Experiments 

 with this organism showed that it was pathogenic for mice, guinea pigs, and 

 rabbits, and that the infection thus produced was severe in all cases. As a rule 

 the eruption of miliary tubercles in all organs appeared in the inoculated 

 animals. 



Metabolic products in rabbits inoculated with fatal doses of hog cholera 

 and anthrax bacilli, B. Levy and L. Beckmaxn {Criifbl. Bakt. [etc.], 1. Abt., 

 Orig., Ji.3 {1906), No. 1, pp. JiS-J/S). — A careful study was made of a normal 

 serum of rabbits as compared with that obtained after inoculating these animals 

 with fatal doses of hog cholera or anthrax bacilli. In these experiments, the 

 conclusion was reached that no toxic metabolic products are formed in the 

 rabbit during the course of these diseases, or at least that no such products 

 jiass over into the blood serum. 



Rabies as related to rats and mice, V. Fermi {Centbl. Bakt. [etc.], 1. Abt., 

 Orig., J/S {1907), Nos. 2, pp. 173-178; 3, pp. 218-222). — In the experiments re- 

 ported in this paper it was found that nearly all of the inoculated rats and 

 mice developed a fatal form of rabies. In these experiments fixed virus was 

 used. A virus of unusual virulence was obtained and tested on 49 bii"ds belong- 

 ing to a number of genera. None of these animals became infected. 



With regard to the possible distribution of rabies by rats and mice some 

 cases are on record in which the disease was apparently transmitted by the bites 

 of these animals, but the dog is considered to be the main agent. Mice and rats 

 are readily infected by feeding upon rabies virus, a result which is quite con- 

 trary to that obtained in experiments with dogs. 



The maximum dilution of rabies virus for the production of an infection 

 with this disease, C. Fermi {Centbl. Bakt. [etc.], 1. Abt., Orig., J,3 {1907), 

 No. 5, pp. ■'i'i6-.'i'f8). — By the use of a fixed virus it is found possible to inoculate 

 mice hypodermically using a dilution of 1 : 50,000. Rats and mice appear to 

 be more susceptil)le to greatly diluted hypodermic injections than are dogs. 



Contagious diseases of animals in foreign countries ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 Aniin. Indus. Rpt. 190'), pp. 298-305). — A statistical summary is given of in- 

 fectious diseases reported during 1905 in Europe. 



The diseases of animals and meat inspection in Western Australia, J. B. 

 Cleland {Jour. Dept. Agr. West. Aust., 15 {1907), No. 2, pp. 84-94). — ^Particular 

 attention is given to a discussion of infectious diseases which are communicable 

 to man and to other diseases which are of most importance in meat inspection. 

 The pathological conditions referred to by the author include tuberculosis, 

 actinomycosis, hydatids, pleuro-pneumonia, Texas fever, bladder worms, tumors, 

 melanotic conditions, and fatty neci-osis. 



Tables are given showing the prevalence of the various diseases in animals as 

 determined in the course of meat inspection. 



Division of animal industry, V. A. Norgaard {Rpt. Bd. Conirs. Agr. and 

 Forestry Hauaii, 3 {1906), pp. 165-205, i)ls. S). — A record is given of the cor- 

 respondence regarding animal quarantine in Hawaii during the year under report. 



