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conclusions reached are as follows: (1) Repeated injections of mallein accus- 

 tom the horses to mallein. A weak reaction or none is obtained when the test 

 is repeated. (2) The results obtained with repeated injections can not serve 

 as a diagnostic aid unless a sufficient length of time elapses between each 

 injection. (3) Malleinization, with the doses usually employed and in periods 

 of 1 month apart, will not show any curative properties for glanders. 



Malta fever in Arizona, with a preliminary report of cases, C. E. Yount 

 and R. N. Looney {South. Cal. Practitioner, 21 (1912), No. 6, pp. 257-261).— 

 The authors report 5 cases of Malta fever in man, thus indicating the occur- 

 rence of this disease among goats in Arizona. 



Spontaneous nephritis in wild rats, W. OPHiJLs and G. W. McCoy (Jour. 

 Med. Research, 26 (1912), No. 2, pp. 2^9-255, pi. i).— "Wild rats very fre- 

 quently (at least in 2 per cent of all cases examined) suffer from a peculiar 

 type of chronic nephritis, one of the characteristic features of which is a very 

 marked tendency to epithelial proliferation and to cyst formation. A condition 

 very similar in all respects to this spontaneous disease may be produced ex- 

 perimentally in white rats by subcutaneous injection of uranium nitrate." 



Rabies and its control in New York State, J. G. Wills (N. Y. Dept. Agr. 

 Bui. 29, 1911, pp. 307-3S0).—A general account. 



On sporotrichosis, L. de Beurmann, trans, by R. W. Mackenna (Brit. Med. 

 Jour., 1912, No. 2693, pp. 289-296). — A general discussion of this disease, the 

 existence and importance of which have been demonstrated. 

 • A contribution to the study of canine piroplasmosis, N. N. Naveotsky and 

 P..V. Bekensky (Arch. Sai. Biol. [Si. Petcrsh.], 17 (1912), No. 1, pp. 31-60, 

 figs. 6; ahs. in Amer. Vet. Rev., 41 (1912), No. 6, pp. G39-6J,2) .—This paper 

 takes up the clinical appearance of the disease, the condition of the blood and 

 of the urine, the anatomo-pathologic lesions, and the virus. 



Trypanosomes obtained by feeding wild Glossina niorsitans on monkeys 

 in the Luangwa Valley, northern Rhodesia, A. Kinghorn and W. Yorke 

 (Ann. Trop. Med. and Par., 6 (1912), No. 3, pp. 317-32J,, fig. i).— The tryp- 

 anosomes Trypanosoma rhodesiense, T. pecorum, T. ignotum, and probably also 

 T. viva.r and T. nanum, are transmitted in nature by G. niorsitans in the 

 Luangwa Valley. 



[The occurrence of dourine (" Mofo ") in Ceara, Brazil], M. Saboia (Sobre 

 a Trypanosomiase dos Equidas, Conliecida no Ceard pclo Nome de " Mofo.'''' 

 Rio Janeiro, 1912, pp. 6J/, pis. 8). — The author has succeeded in isolating a 

 trypanosome from sick horses which is apparently Trypanosoma cguiperdnm, 

 the causative agent of dourine. The disease, known in Brazil as " Mofo," has 

 existed as an epizootic for several years in certain districts of that country; 

 the sjndrome resembles dourine in every particuLu". 



A note on the morphology of a strain of Trypanosoma equiperdum, W. 

 Yorke and B. Blacklock (Brit. Med. Jour., 1912, No. 2696, p. 473, figs. 14)-— 

 This note relates to stumpy forms of this parasite which have the macro- 

 nucleus displaced toward the posterior end. 



Note on surra, E. W. Oliver (Dept. Land Records and Agr. United Prov. 

 Agra and Oudh, Agr. Ser., 1912, Bui. 27, i)p. 4, pl- !)• — A brief general account 

 with directions for prevention and treatment. 



Relation between human and bovine tubercle bacilli, G. S. Woodhead 

 (Lancet {London^, 1912, I, No. 22, pp. 1451-1457; ahs. in Jour. Amer. Med. 

 Assoc, 59 (1912), No. 1, p. 70). — Bovine tubercle bacilli are not considered a 

 negligible quantity as far as tuberculosis in man is concerned. Surgical and 

 abdominal tuberculosis in man will, according to the author's belief, be found 

 to have a direct relation to bovine tuberculosis. 



