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Some stock diseases of the eastern coastal districts, T. Bowhill ( Agr. .lour. 

 Cape Good Hope, U I 1904 I, No. S, pp. SS1SS7 (.—Brief notes are given on a number 

 of diseases which may be considered as due to various Haemocytozoa and Pasteurella. 

 These diseases include red water, malignant malaria of dogs, biliary fever of horses, 

 coast gall sickness, white scours, etc. 



Cattle and horse diseases in South Africa, K. II. Mason I U. S. Dept. Com. and 

 Labor, Mb. Consular Rpts., 75 {1904), No. 285, pp. 1066, 1067).- Attention is called 

 to the importance of the results obtained by the investigations of Professor Koch in 

 South Africa with regard to the nature and means of preventing Rhodesian tick fever 

 and South African horse disease. 



The veterinary section, A. Tiieii.kk et al. {Transvaal Agr. .lour.. 2 | 1904), No. 

 8, pp. 555-577, pis. 10). — A further contribution is made to the diagnosis of heart- 

 water in cattle. 



It appears from a study of this disease that heartwater may lie produced in cattle 

 by injecting virulent blood obtained from affected sheep. The disease appears in a 

 great many different forms which are frequently referred to different causes. The 

 period of incubation varies from 6 to 15 days, but averages about L2 days. Serious 

 symptoms may lie almost entirely absent in cases where the animals die suddenly. 



Notes are given on measles in swineand cattle. The appearance of Madder worms 

 in meat is described and notes are given on the methods of infection in man and 

 animals and on the best preventive measures for eradicating these pests. Brief 

 accounts are also given of the utility of zebra hybrids, regulations regarding the 

 driving of live stock and quarantine rules, stock thefts, and the deliberations held at 

 the intercolonial veterinary conference. 



The enzootic occurrence of carcinoma in animals, L. Loek ( ( 'entbl. Bakt. u. 

 Par., 1. AbL, Orig., 37 {1904), No. 2, pp. 235-24^, figs. 5). — Brief notes are given on 

 the occurrence of cancer in enzootic form in cattle, rats, and other animals. The 

 pathological anatomy of cancer in these animals is discussed, together with notes on 

 the etiology of the disease. 



Human and bovine tuberculosis, N. Raw (British Med. Jour., 1004, No. 2284, 

 pp. 907-909). — Attention is again called to the absolute contradiction between the 

 opinions of Koch and von Behring on this subject. The author agrees in general 

 with Koch on the point that bovine and human tuberculosis are distinct diseases. 

 He argues, however, that man is subject to both forms of tuberculosis, one being 

 conveyed by infection from one person to another, and the other by receiving bovine 

 tubercle bacilli in milk or meat of tuberculous animals. The author made a study 

 of 3,000 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in man, in which the lesions were found to 

 be confined strictly to the lungs in all except 14 cases. In post-mortem examina- 

 tions the lungs were frequently found to be affected by 2 distinct kinds of tubercu- 

 losis, one of a slow nature and the other more acute. It is believed, therefore, that 

 primary intestinal tuberculosis of children is conveyed by milk or meat from bovine 

 sources and is not true human tuberculosis. The success which has attended the 

 immunization experiments of von Behring and Romer in Marburg are considered as 

 supporting the author's view. During these experiments it has been found impos- 

 sible to produce immunity against tuberculosis in cattle except by the use of tubercle 

 bacilli of human origin. By this latter means over 1,000 cattle have already been 

 immunized. The recent report of the Herman Imperial Health Office on the subject 

 of bovine and human tuberculosis is believed also to furnish strong support for Koch's 

 contention that there is a specific distinction between human and bovine tubercle 

 bacilli. The author is experimenting with the blood serum of tuberculous cattle for 

 the purpose of testing the possibility of immunizing man by the injection of such 

 products. The author concludes as the result of his experiments and observations 

 that human and bovine tuberculosis are distinct diseases and that man is susceptible 

 to both. 



