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1.000-1.200 were nearly all killed, and those with a higher agglutinating power 

 were destroyed without exception. In the group 1,000-1,200 about 60 per cent 

 and in the 2 groups 1.500 and 2.000 and over as many as 85 and 96 per cent 

 were found to be glandered. It was. however, not always possible to discover 

 lesions of glanders at the post-mortem of horses with even tliese high agglutinat- 

 ing powers. 



"The total results of the agglutination test are held to indicate that this 

 method of diagnosis is a valuable one'fov the eai'ly I'ecognition of glanders, 

 and that it is therefore valuable as an aid in the stamping out of the disease By- 

 its means many glandered horses showing no clinical symptoms of the disease 

 whatever can be discovered. In the author's opinion, all horses showing an 

 agglutinating power of 1.500 or over should be destroyed, and he holds that 

 from a veterinary-police point of view it is not a serious matter that when this 

 plan is adopted some sound animals are destroyed. It would also be justifiable 

 to destroy iuuuediately horses with an agglutinating power of 1,000. The ani- 

 mals of this group (1,000-1,200) numbered only 3.9 per cent of the aggregate 

 tested." 



Peculiar intra-nuclear bodies of the ganglionic cells in enzootic cerebro- 

 spinal meningitis of the horse, E. Joest and K. Degen iZtscJir. Infcldlons- 

 la-anl-. u. Hi/fJ. Hausticre, 6 (1909), No. 5, pp. 3.'iS-356, pi. 1. fig. 1 ; ahs. in Vet. 

 Rcc. 22 (1910). No. J 137, p. 696). — This is a pi-eliminary account of researches 

 into the histological alterations of the central nervous system in horses suffer- 

 ing from infectious cerebro-spinal meningitis. 



Small bodies intra-nuclearly situated, and distinguished by a pi'onounced 

 affinity for eosin, were discovered in the large ganglionic cells of the hippo- 

 campus. " These bodies were discovered exclusively in the nuclei of the gangli- 

 onic cells; their number varied, sometimes reaching, but never exceeding 6; they 

 are constant in shape, always being siiherical. In the view of the authors 

 these bodies can only be either the product of a special alteration of the cell 

 or foreign bodies which have penetrated the cell and nucleus from without. 

 Twenty-seven horses affected with infectious cerebro-spinal meningitis were 

 histologically examined, and in 24 of these, or 88.9 per cent, the existence of 

 these intra-nuclear bodies could be demonstrated. Two of the 3 negative cases- 

 did not appear to be typical cases of the disease. In 8 horses, which were 

 either healthy or suffering from diseases other than cerebro-spinal meningitis, 

 the intra-nuclear bodies were not demonstrable." While the bodies seem to 

 represent a characteristic microscopic appearance in this disease, their etio- 

 logical relation to it has not been determined. 



Concerning the bacteriology of chicken cholera, L. Trincas (Gior. R. Snc. 

 Itnl. Ig., 30 (1908), No. 9, pp. 385-396; ahs. in Bui. In.^t. Pa.<it€ur, 7 (1909), 

 No. 12, pp. .523, 52 Ji). — During the course of 8 epizootics of chicken cholera, the 

 author isolated 3 dissimilar organisms, once the bacillus generally recognized as 

 the cause of chicken cholera, once a coccobacillus similar to B. coli and near to 

 that which Sanfelice isolated in an epizootic of pigeons, and once an undescribed 

 species to which the name Bacilliin psicudo-cholcrw gallinnnim is given. The 

 clinical symptoms and patho-anatomical lesions were similar in the 3 epizootics. 



White comb or favus of the fowl and its parasite, S.vboitraitd, Suis and 

 SuFFRAN (Rrx\ Vet. [Toulomc^, S) (1909), Nos. 10, pp. 601-613, flgfi. 6; lU 

 pp. 672-688, fig.^. 9; ahs. in Ann. MM. Vet., 59 (1910), No. 3, pp. 177, 178; Vet. 

 Rec, 22 (1910), No. 1131, p. 602).— -This is an account of investigations extend- 

 ing over a period of 6 months which were made of a chronic benign affection, 

 situated particularly upon the comb and wattles. The parasite, which appears 

 in no way to differ from the Lophoplnifoti gnlJhnv described by Matruchot and 

 r)as.sonville, the present authors place in the genus Achorion. 

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