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man and animals and with diseases wliieli are liliewise intertransmissible be- 

 tween man and animals. 



Yolnme 1 deals witb general pathological anatomy, alteration of cells, in- 

 flammations, tumors, pathogenic bacteria, and diseases of bones. The subject 

 matter of volume 2 includes the pathological anatomy of mnscles, blood, bone 

 marrow, and general neurology. Volume 3 treats of the pathological histology 

 of various parts of the nervous system and the vascular, lymphatic, and respira- 

 tory systems. 



A practicum of bacteriolog'y and protozoolog'y, K. Kiskalt and M. Hart- 

 MANN (Pniktikum dcr Bakteriologie und Prolozoologie. Jena, 1907, pp. T'/+ 

 nJi, flgs. 89). — An attempt is made in the present volume to give briefly such 

 details of technique as are necessary in the study and identification of the most 

 important pathogenic bacteria and protozoa. In preparing this material the 

 author had in mind the needs of the practicing physician and veterinarian. 



Instructions for preparing and shipping pathological specimens for diag- 

 nosis, G. H. Hart (V. K. Dept. Agr., Bur. Anini. Indus. Rpt. 1906. pp. 197-206; 

 Circ. 123, pp. 10). — The modern improvement of technique in the study of the 

 tissues and micro-organisms in diagnosing disease renders it desirable that 

 more care should be exercised in obtaining and shipping samples from the field 

 to lalioratories where they may be studied. Detailed directions are given re- 

 garding the points to be considered in this work. 



In general, the spleen and heart should be forwarded to the laboratory for 

 bacteriological examination. These and other organs should be removed as 

 soon as possible after death, washed in a solution of bichlorid of mercury or 

 some other antiseptic, wrapped in antiseptic gauze and paraffin paper and care- 

 fully boxed before shipment. If preferred, the organs may be sprinkled with 

 powdered boric acid and wrapped in dry gauze. In hot weather or where it is 

 desirable to send only a small portion of an organ, some killing fluid should be 

 used for preserving it before post-mortem changes take place. For this purpose 

 Orth's fluid is reconunended. Special directions are given for shii)ping material 

 in cases of rabies, anthrax, tuberculosis, and glanders, and in shipping samples 

 of milk, affected parts of skin, and material for museum specimens. 



Some of the unsolved problems of imm^unity, A. G. Nicholls {Proc. and 

 Trans, h'oii. Soc. Canada, 2. ser., 12 {1906), Sec. IV, pp. 257-266).— The exact 

 basis of natural inununity of individuals and races is not well understood. It 

 is possible that with a fairly complete explanation of its occurrence a better 

 basis may be given for future work in the production of artificial immunity 

 by different methods. 



Animal breeding and disease, A. D. Melvin and E. C. Schroeder {U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Bur. Anini. Indus. Rpt. 1906, pp. 213-222) .—This article has already 

 been noted from another source (E, S. R., 18, p. 696). 



Contagious diseases of animals in foreign countries (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 Anim. Indus. Rpt. 1906, pp. ,927-35.'/ ) .—Brief statistics are given on the occur- 

 rence of the more important contagious diseases in Austria, Belgium, Cape 

 Colony, Denmark, France. Germany, Great Britain, and other European 

 countries. 



Report civil veterinary department, eastern Bengal and Assam, W. 

 Harris {Rpt. Civ. Vet. Dept., East. Bengal and Assam, 1907, pp. 11).— The civil 

 veterinary department of eastern Bengal and Assam has been in existence for 

 only 1 year. Considerable attention has been given to veterinary instruction 

 and to practical work in the control of glanders, surra, rinderpest, anthrax, 

 hemorrhagic septicemia, foot-and-mouth disease, and blackleg. During the 

 year under report more than 18,000 animals were inoculated for the prevention 



