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The cocci previously reported (E. S. R., 28, p. 376) were found to be present 

 in tlie blood of every fresh case of the disease, especially at the time when the 

 fever was on the rise and before the eruption of the vesicles. In sections of 

 vesicles not fully developed the organisms were noted but not in a fully devel- 

 oped state. The biologic and morphologic characteristics of these micro- 

 organisms are hard to determine, and among a group of the pathogenic cocci 

 there are always others which are morphologically identical but can not be 

 differentiated by the ordinary means. Certain characterisics were noted, how- 

 ever, and these consisted of (1) the property possessed by the organism of 

 passing through a filter; (2) the development of first generations into definite 

 cocci or streptococci when talsen directly from the animal and inoculated into 

 spleen bouillon; and (3) the intracellular growth which differentiates them 

 from Staphylococcus pyogenes. 



While we have no very definite information in regard to the best procedure 

 for actively immunizing bovines against this disease, it would seem that it is 

 best to select an attenuated virus which does not produce a marked form of 

 tlie disease. 



Remarks in regard to the article noted above by Sanitary Councilor Dr. 

 Siegel, VON Osteetag {Berlin. Ticrarztl. Wchnschr., 30 {1914), ^o. 2, pp. 27, 

 28). — ^A short reply to the above. 



The deliberation of the German Agricultural Council with regard to the 

 present status of combating' foot-and-mouth disease {Molk. Ztg. Berlin, 24 

 (191-i), A'o. 7, pp. 69, 70). — Addresses and discussions by LoflBer, von Xathusius, 

 Brieger, Nevermann, and Krause are given. 



Reinvestigation of mallein in the horse establishments of northern Cau- 

 casus, GoRDSJALKowsKY {Vet. Vrcich, 1913, No. 35-36; ahs. in Berlin. Tierarztl. 

 Wchnschr., 29 {1913), No. 48, pp. 860, 861). —As the result of studying the value 

 of mallein for diagnosing occult glanders, it is concluded that healthy horses 

 sometimes give a reaction with mallein which in some cases is hard to differ- 

 entiate from the real positive reaction. Consequently glanders should be diag- 

 nosed finally on the basis of the clinical symptoms. 



Some diseases of animals caused by bacilli of the hemorrhagic septicemia 

 and colon groups, H. Zeiss {Arch. Hyg., 82 {1914), No. 1, pp. 1-32; ahs. in 

 Rev. Bad., 4 {1914), No. 2, p. 24)- — The author describes an outbreak of a 

 disease among canaries in which an organism was isolated that belonged to the 

 hemorrhagic septicemia group and resembled the fowl cholera bacillus. A 

 bacillus which appears to be the same was isolated in pure culture from a tuber- 

 cular-like abscess in a rabbit. A bacillus closely resembling Bacillus coli 

 communis was isolated in an outbreak of disease among chickens. 



Capsule formation, by the bacteria of hemorrhagic septicemia, P. B. 

 Hadley. Ruth Bkyant, and Marguerite Elkins {Centil. Bakt. [etc.], 1. AM., 

 Orig., 72 {1914), ^o. 6-7, pp. 478-480) .—Among 17 cultures examined by 

 Gozony's India ink method,*^ all of which were known by cultural tests and by 

 animal inoculations to belong to the fowl cholera group, not one was found that 

 gave the slightest suggestion of capsule formation. At the same time cap- 

 sulated ink bacteria and other capsulated organisms added to the ink for con- 

 trol purposes were demonstrated. 



In view of the results the authors conclude that it can scarcely be doubted 

 that the bacteria seen and described by Gozony were not bacteria of hemor- 

 rhagic septicemia. 



Necrotic stomatitis, I. E. Newsom {Colorado Sta. Bid. 197 {1914), PP- 11-20, 

 figs. 3). — This paper presents accounts of calf diphtheria, sore mouth disease 



Tentbl. Bakt. [etc.], 1. Abt., Orig., 68 (1913), No. 7, pp. 594-597. 



