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577-597, pi. 1). — Detailed tabular experimental data of a number of inocula- 

 tion experiments with the virus of fowl pest in varying dilutions are sub- 

 mitted. The defibrinated blood of a fowl which had died from the disease was 

 found to cause marked temperature rises but not to confer immunity. 



Data obtained from immunization experiments against foot-and-mouth disease 

 are also reported. The bovine virus was found to cause febrile manifestations 

 and stomatic lesions in swine in two days. The .material obtained from the 

 stomatic vesicle mixed with blood and kept in a thermostat for five days did 

 not cause any stomatic manifestations, and conferred immunity only in the 

 presence of bovine or porcine virus. The results reported are considered to 

 be merely preliminary, and no definite conclusions are drawn. 



Comparative study of Bacillus anthracis-symptomatici and allied organ- 

 isms with, respect to gas production, L. C. Todd {Jour. Infect. Diseases, 20 

 {1917), No. 2, pp. 151-169). — Detailed tabulated experimental data obtained 

 from a comparison of results in gas production from sugars by B. anthracis- 

 symptomatici and alKed organisms show that the organism produces more gas 

 from dextrose, levulose, and maltose than B. cedematis-maligni. The greater 

 proportion of this gas is carbon dioxid. The training of seed cultures was 

 found to influence the gas production of these organisms considerably. 



" Substances credited with the putrid odor are produced in cultures by 

 strain members of both groups. The gas production of most of the strains 

 occurs late and progressively up to about the tenth day. In some media gas 

 production continues to a slight degree for some time after this. An explosive 

 mixture of gases, apparently containing hydrogen and no carbon dioxid, may 

 be produced from ' carbohydrate-free ' broth." 



The conglutination reaction in the diagnosis of glanders compared to other 

 diagnostic methods, G. B. Scotti {Mod. Zooiatro, Parte Sci., 27 {1916), Nos. 9. 

 pp. 213-224; 10, pp. 246-256). — The author concludes that the conglutination 

 test is the most desirable for the diagnosis of glanders. The results are in 

 accordance with those obtained by complement deviation but the conglutination 

 procedure is preferred. 



The precipitin reaction is considered to present certain possible sources of 

 error which depend largely on the technique. The intrapalpebral reaction is 

 deemed a very accurate diagnostic procedure. 



The ophthalmic reaction was found not always to yield reliable results. Its 

 positive reactions are of value, but the negative ones do not necessarily exclude 

 infection. Repeated instillations of mallein can not always be relied upon to 

 reveal infection. On account of the ease of recognizing positive results the 

 reaction is considered of value as a subsidiary test. 



Piroplasmosis and other parasite diseases of the blood of domestic animals 

 in the Balkans, W. N. Mabkoff {Arch. Schiffs u. Tropen Hyg., 20 {1916), No. 

 U, pp. S13-S35; abs. in Trop. Vet. Bui., 4 {1916), No. 4, pp. 151-154).— This re- 

 port of observations made for the most part during 1912 to 1914 at various 

 places in the Balkans relates particularly to protozoan diseases. 



The reliability of cell proliferative changes in the diagnosis of rabies, 

 J. B. Habdenbebgh and B. M. Underhill {Penn. Live Stock Sanit. Bd. Circ. 

 46 {1916), pp. 10, figs. 6). — Previously noted from another source (B. S. R., 

 36, p. 80). 



Rabies eradication in Nevada, S. B. Pipes and B. R. Sans {Carson City: 

 Nevada Rabies Com., 1916, pp. 7, figs. 2). — This is a report upon the progress 

 of the rabies eradication campaign carried on under the direction of the Bureau 

 of Biological Survey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in cooperation 

 with the Nevada Rabies Commission. 



