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Ocular douve of the fowl, C. Math is and M. Lixjer (BuJ. (^oc. Path. Exot., 



3 (1910). \o. .',. PI). 2.'i5-2ol). — A treniatodo found in Tonkin in the conjunctival 

 cul-de-sac of 6 per cent of 422 fowls examined is described as I'll iJojih thai mu.s 

 graUL 



Body temperature of healthy and tubercular chickens and turkeys, Klim- 

 MER and Saalbeck {Ztschr. Ticrmed., J.', (1910), No. 2, pp. JJ,7-158; ahs. in 

 Berlin. TicrarzU. Wchnschr., 26 (1910), No. 25, p. ^99).— The temperatures of 

 15 healthy chickens were taken 1.246 times in one week, and fluctuated between 

 40 and 42.5° C. Temperatures from 40 to 40.8° and from 42.3 to 42.5° were 

 only seldom recorded, being chiefly within the limits of 40.9 and 42.2°, and 

 giving an average of from 41.5 to 42°. The highest daily temperature was in 

 the afternoon from 12 to 2 o'clock and the lowest at midnight. Race, se.x, and 

 the taking of food had no influence on the body temperature. 



With 21 tuberculous chickens (1,724 measurements) the results obtained 

 were identical with those from the normal chickens. With 2 turkeys (164 

 measurements) the temperature fluctuated within 39.5 and 41.5°, but the 

 majority fell between 40.5 and 41.4°. The temperature cycle was the same in 

 the turkeys as in the chickens. 



Poisoning of poultry by common salt, F. Suffban (Rev. G6n. MM. V6i., 

 13 [190'.)). \o. 7.56, pp. 698-705; abs. in Jour. Com par. Path, and Ther., 23 

 {1910}. No. 1, pp. ll-llf). — A case is repoi'ted in which fowls were poisoned by 

 being fed a mash made of potatoes, to which salt had been added. Milk and 

 other liquids prescribed after 13 had succumbed resulted in the recovery of the 

 2 remaining. Chemical analysis showed that in the 80 to 100 gm. of food con- 

 tained in the crops, each fowl had taken from 10 to 14 gm. of salt. 



In order to determine the minimum toxic dose of common salt, a series of 

 experiments was made with fowls from which it is concluded that a dose of 



4 gm. per kilogram of body weight is sufficient to produce death. The fact that 

 one fowl resisted such a dose is thought to have been due to a certain degree 

 of toleration established by previous repeated injection of smaller doses. 



Contributions to the etiology of the disease resulting from feeding birds 

 on rice, I. Fujitani (Arch. Internat. Pharmacod. et Ther., 20 (1910). No. 3-lf, 

 pp. 288-309). — In view of the surmise of Schaumann " that the cause of beri- 

 l)eri in man is due to the fact that the food eaten contains too little or no 

 nuclein phosphorus, the tests reported in this paper were conducted for the 

 [turpose of ascertaining the nature of the phosi)horus compound, and to deter- 

 mine with chickens, pigeons, and sparrows the nature of the protective agent 

 I)resent in the silver skin of rice. 



The birds fed only with shelled rice were found to die with the attending 

 symptoms of motor paralysis. When fed with partly shelled rice, that is, rice 

 having the silver skin, these symptoms did not manifest themselves. Chemical 

 analysis showed that the shelled rice contains less phosphorus than the linlf- 

 shelleil rice, and that this phosphorus exists in the silver skin chiefly in the 

 form of phytin. The greater amount of phosphorus in the half-shelled rice has 

 evidently some relation to this compound. The phytin of the bran is not able, 

 as the test showed, to prolong the life of the animals fed on peeled rice. The 

 protective agent is thermolabile at 100°C, but its nature could not be determined. 



About the transmission of disease organisms by fowl eggs, with a con- 

 tribution to the bacteriology of the normal egg, K. 1'opi'e (Arb. K. (Jandht- 

 samt.. 3.'t (1910), No. 2, pp. 186-221).— From this work it appears that the 

 normal hen's egg contains bacteria under ordinary conditions, and further, that 

 I he pollution can take place in either the developing or the comiiletetl egg. Un- 



«Arch. Schiflfs u. Tropen Hyg., 12 (1908). No. 5, p. 37. 



