VETERINARY MEDICINE. 283 



"Prof, vou BehriiiK's tulasclaktin. as (-nii)]()ye(l by Dr. liouior, his ropresenta- 

 tivo, has not caused the recov(>ry from, or the retrogression of, the tuberculous 

 lesions in the cattle to which it was applied. 



■' Tulaselaktin has not hindered the development of fresh tuberculous lesions 

 iu some of the exi»erimental animals. 



"The satisfactory general condition and increase of w^eight observed in a 

 number of animals during the experiments can not be attributed to tulaselaktin, 

 but to attention to hygiene, excellent fodder, the condition of rest in which they 

 were kept, and the growth of the animals (young cattle in most cases), as is 

 provetl by the fact that the same things were observed in the animals that were 

 not treated." 



Differential methods for detecting the typhoid bacillus in infected water 

 and milk, D. D. Jackson and T. W. Mklia {Jour. Infect. Diseases, 6 {t'JO'J), 

 No. 2, PI). 19'i-20Ji, figs. 2). — "Bile is a natural medium for the growth of the 

 typhoid bacillus and it retards the growth of other bacteria except BaciUiis coli. 

 When lactose is present in the bile B. coli causes copious gas formation and 

 soon produces sufficient acidity to retard its own growth so that the final result 

 is a predominance of B. typhosus which has been multiplying rapidly in the 

 meantime and is not materially affected by this acidity. 



" When samples of water or milk are inoculated into lactose bile and incu- 

 batetl at 37° C. and then transplanted in varying dilutions into Ilesse agar, 

 very characteristic colonies are formed in the high dilutions when the typhoid 

 bacillus is present." 



The authors were able to isolate typhoid cultures from feces with certainty 

 at any stage of the disease from milk artificially infected with small niunbers 

 of B. typhosus, and from river, pond, and stream water. 



The treatment of suppurative conditions in animals by a slig'ht modifica- 

 tion of the Wrig'ht-Doug'lass vaccine method, E. F. McCampbell and ,T. INIcI. 

 Phillips {Amcr. Yet. Rev., 3Jf {1909), No. 5, pp. 600-608).— Two methods that 

 Lave given good results are described, together with directions for the prepara- 

 tion and use of the vaccine. Good results ha^e followed the application of 

 this vaccine in fistula of the poll and withers, and in suppurative conditions 

 of the hoof, etc. Recovery is said to be extremely rapid when treated in the 

 way described. 



The diseases of the eye in domesticated animals, II. Gray (Vet. lire, 21 

 {1909), No. 1082, pp. 678-688). — An account of the various diseases of the eye 

 and methods of treatment. 



Special report on diseases of cattle {U. 8. Dept. Ayr., Bur. Ani)ii. Indus., 

 1909, rev. ed.,.pp. 551, pis. 52, figs. 27). — This work, originally issued in 181)2, 

 and revised in 1904 (E. S. R., 16, p. 70S), has again been revised in accordance 

 with a resolution passed by Congress. The changes made in the present edition 

 consist mainly iu a revision of the chapters on diseases of the digestive organs, 

 infectious diseases, and a substitution of a new chapter on animal ])arasitos 

 for the chapter on that subject in the edition of 1004. 



Bovine contag-ious mammitis, J. A. Gilruth {New Zeal. Dept. Agr., Yet. Div. 

 Bui. 13, pp. 9, pi. 1 ; Ann. Rpt., 16 {1908), pp. 202-208, pi. /).— Tlie nature of 

 this disease, its symptoms, transmission, prevention, and treatment are consid- 

 fred. Since attention was first drawn to the presence of the disease in >sew 

 Zealand, 5 years ago, it ai>i)ears to have spi*ead extensively. 



Mastitis of the cow, S. Walf, (Die Euterentziindungcn der Kufi. Stuttgart, 

 190H,^pp. YIII+122, figs. 29; nr. in Jour. Cornpar. rath, and Thrr.. 21 {1908), 

 No. If, p. 337). — The author here discusses the various forms of niasfitis of the 

 cow. The observations and investigations made were largely upon tuberculous 

 udders. 



