490 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



the State from north of the quarantme Une. Brief notes are given on the occurrence 

 of glanders and milk fever. It is reported that experiments in the use of arecoline 

 as a remedy for colic and acute indigestion in horses indicate that this substance is 

 fairly effective. 



Eleventh annual report on the veterinary service in Hung-ary, F. Hutyra 

 {Jahresbericht itber das Veterindrwesen in Ungarn. Budapest : Ayr. Dept. , 1900, pp. 180) . — 

 This volume contains a general account of the personnel and extent of veterinary 

 service. Brief notes are given on the losses caused by animal diseases during the 

 year. A detailed account is presented of the outlfreaks and extent of cattle plague, 

 anthrax, rabies, glanders, foot-and-mouth disease, pneumonia, sheep pox, mange, 

 hog cholera, swine plague, tuberculosis, etc. Statements are made concerning the 

 extent of traffic in domesticated animals during the year and the results of protective 

 inoculation against anthrax, hog cholera, and blackleg. Copies of some of the 

 veterinary regulations are also given. 



The infectious diseases of domestic animals, N. V. Elmaxov {Besi/edui o 

 zaraznuikh holyeznyakh nasJiikJ) domashnlkJi zirirotnulklt. Mosco^v: K. I. Tikhomirov, 



1900, X)p. 67, Jigs. 15; ahs. in Selsk. Khoz. i Lyesov, 199 {1900), Dec, p. 754) ■ — A general 

 account of anthrax, glanders, cattle plague, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, tubercu- 

 losis, rabies, cowpox, and scabies. 



The suppression of tuberculosis, E. Koch {Nature, 64 {1901), No. 1656, jjp. 

 Sl'2-316). — This is a paper read at the British Congress on Tuberculosis, July 23, 



1901. The author presents a general discussion of the probleni concernuig the pos- 

 sibility of transmission of tuberculosis from animals to man and from man to animals. 

 Numerous experiments indicate that human and bovme tuberculosis are two quite 

 distinct diseases. Young cattle, which were shown by the tuberculin test to be free 

 from tuberculosis, were inoculated hypodermically, intravenously, or in the perito- 

 neal cavity, with jaure cultures of tubercle bacilli from cases of human tuberculosis, 

 or with the tubercular sputum of consumptive patients. In addition to these experi- 

 ments, 6 animals were fed with tubercular sputum almost daily for a period of 7 or 8 

 months, and 4 were made to inhale great quantities of bacilli from the same source 

 by means of a spray from an atomizer. In all, 19 cattle were used in these experi- 

 ments, and none of them developed any symptoms of disease; on the contrary, they 

 gained considerably in weight, and after from 6 to 8 months a post-mortem exami- 

 nation showed no trace of tuberculosis in any organs. When similar experiments 

 were conducted on cattle with pure cultures of tubercle bacilli, or tubercular mate- 

 rial of bovine origin, the result was entirely different, and all inoculated animals 

 showed symptoms of generalized tuberculosis within a few weeks. Some of them 

 died at the end of a month. 



With regard to the other phase of the problem, the possibility of the transmission 

 of tuberculosis from animals to man, the author believes that while the question is 

 not absolutely decided, the infection of human beings from this source is of rare 

 occurrence. It is stated that the transmission of infection by milk from fresh tuber- 

 culous animals is probably not greater than that by heredity, and it is therefore con- 

 sidered unnecessary to take any measures against possible danger to human beings 

 from such sources. Attention is called to the rej^orts of older experiments hy other 

 writei's, in which it was found that calves, pigs, and goats fed with milk and tuber- 

 cular material from cattle always contracted tuberculosis, Avhile those which received 

 sputum from human patients did not become infected. It is believed by the author 

 that tuberculosis in man is transmitted onlj' from tuberculous human patients, and 

 that the disease in animals is transmitted only from one animal to another. 



Report of the tuberculin committee, J. McFadyean et al. {Jour. Roy. Agr. 

 Soc. England, 3. ser., 11 (1900), pf. 4, pip- 708-723). — The experiments recorded in this 

 paper were conducted for the purj^ose of determining the effect of rejieated doses of 

 tuberculin and the length of time after infection before a reaction to tuberculin takes 



