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lesions. The placenta in charbon changes rapidly after death, undergoing a peculiar 

 decomposition, no bacilli occur, and the dead foetus does not always contain bacilli. 

 These are found only in the blood and in the surrounding amniotic fluid. 



New discoveries on Bacillus tuberculosis, its transformation in the common 

 saprophyte, and its resemblance to the Coli bacillus, J. Ferran (Nourellea 

 deco uver tes sur le bacille de la tubereulose ; La transformation en saprophyte .vulgaire et 

 son rapprochement da genera Coli bacilli. Barcelona, 1897 ; abs. in Centbl. Bakt. u. Par., 

 1. Abt., 22 ( 1897), Xo. 16-17, pp. 483, 4S4). 



Tuberculosis in cattle, E. A. A. Grange {Michigan Sta. Bpt. 1896, pp. W2-412). — 

 A reprint of Bulletin 133 of the station (E. S. R., 8, p. 625). 



An investigation of tuberculosis in the ass, Julme (Ztschr. Tiermed., 1 {1S97), 

 p. 361; abs. in Bakt. u. Par., 1. Abt., 22 {1897), No. 20-21, p. 614).— It was found that 

 the ass is by no means immune to tuberculosis. 



A rare case of udder tuberculosis, Eiirhardt (Schweiz. Arch. Tierheilk., 1896, 

 pt. 2; abs. in Centbl. Bakt. u. Par., 1. Abt., 22 (1S97), No. 20-21, pp. 613, 614).- 

 Iu a healthy cow that two months previous to slaughtering had been diagnosed as 

 affected with tuberculosis of the udder there was found evidence of old lesions in 

 the udder and of fresh miliary tuberculosis in the lungs. 



Investigations of bovine tuberculosis in Finland, 1894-95, C. Aiilman and II. 

 Sawela {Landfbr. Styr. Meddel., 1897, No. 20, pp. 167-189). 



The contest against bovine tuberculosis, B. Bang {Ber. Andra Nord. Landtbr. 

 Kongr., Stockholm, 1S07, I, pp. 209 229). 



Life history of trichina, J. W. Graham {Arch. Mikros. Anat., 50 {1897), pp. 219-275, 

 pis. 3 ; abst. .four. Boy. Micros. Soc. [London'], iS'JS, No. ■!, p. 79). — The fact that young 

 trichina occur in the body cavity free in the tissue and arc unequally distributed in 

 the different groups of muscles the author holds is not supported by the idea of 

 active migration, while the tact that embryos occur in the blood, that the embryo 

 has been found iu the artery of the diaphragm, that embryos occur in blood clots in 

 the lungs, and the existence of lesious and the bleeding of capillaries, and the 

 rapidity of distribution are arguments in favor of the distribution of the parasite 

 being by means of the blood vessels. 



Filaria and Spiroptera, M. Stossich {Bol. Soc. Adriat. Sci. Nat., IS {1S97), pp. 

 13-102; abs. in Zool. Centbl., 5 {1898), No. 4, p. 124).— A monograph treating of 317 

 species of parasites belonging to the genera Filaria, Spiroptera, Oxyspirura, Fila- 

 roides, Spiroxys, and Gougylonema. 



The duration of immunity after illness with foot-and-mouth disease, Kenner 

 {Berlin Tierarzlt. Wchnschr., 27 (18D7); abs. in Centbl. Halt. u. Far., 1. Abt., 22 ( 1897), 

 No. 20-21, p. 621). — A half year after the disease affected a herd of cattle it appeared 

 again. The animals that had beeu affected in the first attack escaped the second. 



The struggle with foot-and-mouth disease, Hoexe (Berlin Tierarzlt. Wchnschr., 

 27 {1S07); abs. in Centbl. Bakt. n. Par., 1. Abt., 22 {1897), No. 20-21, p. 621). 



Observations on the etiology of foot-and-mouth disease, V. Bares and G. 

 Proca (Centbl. Bakt. u. Par., 1. Abt., 21 (1S97), No. 23-23, pp. 835-849, Jigs, o).— The 

 author found several bacterial forms and believes that he has isolated one, a fungoid- 

 bacterioid, that is the cause of the disease. This form is of uncertain position, but 

 it calls to mind Babes's Ascobaeterinm Intern. Injection of cultures produced the 

 fever. 



The causes and importance of udder diseases, .1. Wennerholm (Ber. Andra 

 Nord. Landtbr. Ron (jr., Stockholm, 1897, I, pp. 160-173). 



A case of three-fold infection, L. Gussew ( Centbl. Halt. n. Par., 1. Abt., 11 ( 1 

 No. 22-23, pp. 849-857, fig. 1). — Infection with Bacillus of charbon, a pus-forming 

 Streptococcus, and Fraeukel's Diplococcus. 



The origin of tetanus antitoxin in the animal body and its relation to tetanus 

 poison, A. Knorr (Fortschr. Med., 1897, No. 17 ; abs. in Centbl. Halt. n. Par., 1- Abt., 

 22 (1897), No. 18-19, pp. 567-568). 



