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(2) their slaughter for beef under proper inspection, procuring the meat values 

 of those that are only slightly infected, and (3) the application of the Bang 

 method. It is stated that the third method has been applied in this country 

 with success at the Wisconsin and New York State stations and by several 

 private cattle owners. 



It is the author's opinion that the offspring of tuberculous animals do not 

 have any tendency to tuberculosis. Within a few weeks he has had tested 202 

 heifers between the ages of IS months and 3 years, nearly all the offspring of 

 tuberculous dams, with only one reaction, the post mortem in this case showing 

 a very slight lesion. 



Immunization of cattle to tuberculosis, A. Webkk and C. Titze {Tuber- 

 kutosc Arb. K. Gsndhtsamt., 1908, No. 9, pp. 1-26; abs. in Bui. Inst. Pasteur, 6 

 (1908), Xo. 23, pp. 1039, lO-'/O). — In continuation of experiments previously 

 noted (R S. R., 19, p. 10S2) the authors used the Koch-Schutz vaccine known as 

 tauruman, which is composed of bacilli of the human type. 



It was found that 10 to 15 days after the inoculation of an animal a fever 

 develops, which continues high for 2 to S days and is accompanied by a cough 

 and loss of weight. The resistance of animals inoculated at the age of 3 weeks 

 was tested by intravenous and subcutaneous injections, inhalation and ingestion 

 of tubercle bacilli, and by contact with diseased animals. None of the animals 

 inoculated was afterwards found free from tuberculous lesions. The authors 

 conclude that there is no marked difference in practice between bovovaccine and 

 tauruman. Each can confer a resistance for a limited period. 



Permanence of the human type of tubercle bacillus in the bodies of bovo- 

 vaccinated cattle, A. Weber et al. {Tithcrkalosc Arb. K. Gsnclhtnaiiit., 1908, 

 Ao. 9, pp. 27--',9; abs. in Bui. Inst. Pasteur, 6 (1908), \o. 23, pp. 10.',0, 10.',}).— 

 Experiments are reported in which the bovovaccine of von Behriug and the 

 tauruman of Koch and Schiitz were used. 



Three mouths after intravenous injections of tauruman bacilli were found 

 in the lungs, and the bronchial and mediastinal glands only ; none was found 

 after 7 months. With bovovaccine the persistence was not so long. It is 

 concluded that the flesh of vaccinated animals should not be used for food within 

 4 months following inoculation. 



Elimination of tubercle bacilli with milk after intravenous injection of 

 the human type of the bacillus, C. Titze {Tuberkulosc Arb. K. Gsndhtsamt., 

 1908, Xo. 9, pp. 50-58; abs. in Bui. Inst. Pasteur, 6 (1908), No. 23, p. lO-'fl).— 

 The author first reviews the investigations that have been made by other 

 woi-kers. In the investigations here reported bacilli (typus humanus) were 

 eliminated in the milk of cows that had been intravenously injected with 

 tauruman. 



In the first experiment the elimination commenced the third week and still 

 continued after 144 days had passed. The bacilli were only found, however, in 

 milk from the left hind quarter of the udder. 



In the second experiment bacilli were not eliminated in the milk even after 

 a second injection, made 3 months after the first (typus humanus) with bacilli 

 of the bovine type. After a third injection (typus humanus) bacilli appeared 

 in the milk from the left hind quarter of the udder. 



In a third experiment bacilli were eliminated in the milk from the left hind 

 quarter of the udder 24 hours after injection, but none appeared after the 

 ninety-ninth day. In another instance the elimination of the bacilli is said to 

 have continued for IH months. 



Tuberculin as a diagnostic agent, W. Jowett (Jour. Compar. Path, and Then, 

 22 (1909), No. 1, pp. 10-22).— A resume of the new methods of diagnosis by 

 means of local applications of tuberculin. 



