680 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



property of phenol is no simple function of the amount of disinfecting agent 

 taken up by the yeast. 



Antitoxin and protein, P. H. Romee {Ztschr. Immunitdtsf. u. Expt. Ther., 

 I, Orig., 13 (1912), No. 3, pp. 260-282).— The milk from sheep which were pre- 

 viously injected with tetanus antitoxic serum from the horse contained anti- 

 toxin. Horse serum protein could not be detected with certainty with the aid 

 of the complement fixation and precipitation methods. The serum of sheep 

 which were treated by various methods with tetanus antitoxin obtained from 

 the horse showed the presence of this antitoxin for a period of six mouths 

 thereafter, while the substances which can be precipitated by antiserum van- 

 ished long before this period. 



About neosalvarsan, E. Schkeibeb (Milnchen. Med,. Wchnschr., 59 {1912), 

 No. 17, pp. 905-907; ahs. in CentU. BaM. [etc.], 1. Abt., Ref., 54 (.1912), No, 

 3, pp. 82, 83). — Neosalvarsan is a monobody which results from the condensa- 

 tion of sodium formaldehyde-sulphoxylate with salvarsan. It is easily and 

 neutrally soluble in water. According to Ehrlich it is more toxic to the try- 

 panosomes than salvarsan, about 1 gm. being as toxic as 1.5 gm. of salvarsan. 

 The main thesis of this work was in regard to spirochete infections (lues) 

 in man. 



The action of salvarsan on anthrax, Schuster (Abs. in Ann. M4d. V4t., 61 

 (1912), No. 6, p. 342). — Experiments show that salvarsan exerts a specific 

 action on the anthrax bacillus. "When an injection of salvarsan was made 

 simultaneously with the inoculation of a virulent culture of the anthrax 

 bacillus no signs of the disease appeared. Recovei-y resulted when the in- 

 jection of salvarsan was made from 1 to 12 hours after the rabbit was experi- 

 mentally infected. 



Contribution to our knowledge of the precipitin reaction as an aid for 

 diagnosing anthrax, Peof6 (Centhl. Bakt. [etc.], 1. Abt., Orig., 64 (1912), 

 Fcstfichrift F. Locfflcr, pp. 185-189). — The author sought to determine in what 

 way the method and time of heating the anthrax material influenced the re- 

 sults obtained with the precipitin reaction. Repeated boiling of the material 

 from animals suffering from anthrax in an aqueous or saline solution over 

 the direct flame has no more effect upon the precipitinogen than keeping it in 

 boiling water from 5 to 45 minutes. 



The chloroform precipitation method (E. S. R., 27, p. 80) has the advantage 

 over the heating method in that it yields clearer extracts and gives a sharper 

 reaction. A modification of the chloroform method is given. 



Report of the departmental committee appointed by the president of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to inquire into foot-and-mouth disease 

 (Rpt. Dept. Com. Bd. Agr. and Fisheries [Gt. Britain], Fooi-and-Month Disease, 

 1912, pts. 1, pp. 12; 2, pp. ///+337).— This is the report of a committee of 12 

 appointed November 17, 1911, to inquire into the recent outbreaks of foot-and- 

 mouth disease in England and to consider measures to prevent their recur- 

 rence. The committee also extended its inquiry to anthrax, since any measures 

 as to imports which would be preventive of anthrax would also be effective 

 against foot-and-mouth disease. The report takes up the history of foot-and- 

 mouth disease in Great Britain, gives a description of it, and discusses experi- 

 ments and research into foot-and-mouth and other diseases, preventive inocu- 

 lation and experimentation with virus of a dangerous nature in Great Britain, 

 origin of outbreaks, means by which the virus may be imported, etc. 



The committee are of the opinion that all persons employed as knackers or 

 slaughterers, as well as aU owners of stock, should be required to report imme- 

 diately any observed case of the disease. If hides and skins from infected 

 countries are sterilized prior to shipment there will be no necessity for 



