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Annual report of the Civil Veterinary Department, Bihar and Orissa, for 

 the year 1913—14, D. Quinlan (Ann. Rpt. Civ. Vet. Dcpt. Bihar and Orissa, 

 191S-1J/, pp. 5+8+Z7+2). — This, the usual annual report, deals with veteri- 

 nary instruction, the occurrence of contagious diseases of animals and their 

 treatment, preventive inoculatiou, breeding operations, etc. 



Annual report on the Punjab Veterinary College, Civil Veterinary De- 

 partment, Punjab, and the Government Cattle Farm, Hissar, for the year 

 1913-14, Pease, J. Farmer, and R. Branfoed (Ann. Rpt. Punjah. Vet. Col. 

 and Civ. Yet. Dept., 1913-U, pp. ///-|-^+i7+Zy//).— This is the usual annual 

 report dealing with the occurrence and treatment of contagious diseases of 

 domestic animals, breeding operations, etc. 



On metallic colloids and their bactericidal properties, H. Ceookes (Chem. 

 News, 109 U91Jf), No. 2841, pp. 217-219, figs. 2; 8ci. Amer. Sup., 78 (1914), 

 No. 2009, pp. 2, 3, fig. 1). — The collosols differ from radium in tliat they do not 

 burn the flesh but exert a bland and soothing effect on the animal tissues and 

 kill the bacteria. These preparations are stable, harmless liquids containing 

 metnllic particles in suspension which exhibit the Brownian movement. 



Infusion apparatus for administering artificial sera, etc., W. Gottschalk 

 (BerJin. Tierdrztl. Wclmschr., SO (1914), No. 6, p. 93, fig. 1).—X description of 

 an apparatus for the subcutaneous administration of large amounts of medici- 

 nal agents such as physiological salt solution. 



The technique of the Wassermann reaction, with special reference to the 

 use of antigens containing cholesterol, C. H. Browning (Lancet [London], 

 1914, I, ^f>- li^ PP- 74O-742). — This has special reference to the use of antigens 

 containing cholesterol for the complement fixation test. 



About some tests with antistreptococcic serum, Perl (Berlin. Tierdrztl. 

 Wchnschr., 30 (1914), No. 6, pp. 91-93). — Experiments with Schreiber's serum, 

 which is obtained by treating horses with cultures of streptococci from cases 

 of mastitis (bovines), infected wounds (horses), and also from lame patients, 

 led the author to ask whether it would not be more rational to iise a serum 

 prepared from the streptococcus causing the disease and not a polyvalent 

 serum. Eighteen cases, which included mastitis in cows, acute pneumonia 

 (possibly affected with strangles), phlegmons on an extremity, polyarthritis 

 in suckling foals, morbus maculosus, arthritis of the fetlock joint (due to 

 stepping on a nail), lacerated cervix in a mare, bronchopneumonia and bilateral 

 pneumonia in horses suspected of having strangles, strangles in a foal, and 

 a swollen extremity in a cow, were treated by this method. 



No definite conclusions are drawn except that the intravenous method of 

 administration seems to be the most feasible, but that a special apparatus must 

 be devised for the purpose. The doses of the serum were al.so too small. 



TJltravisibie virus, Loeffler (Berlin. Tierdrztl. Wclmschr., SO (1914), Nos. 

 12, Beilagc, pp. 15, 16; IS, Beilage, pp. 17-19). — ^A lecture delivered at the 

 thirteenth general meeting of the official Prussian veterinarians in Berlin, 

 December 6, 1913. It mentions the diseases caused by filterable viruses and 

 discusses the findings in this field chronologically. 



Interesting cases of anaphylaxis, V. Balla (Allatorvosi Lapok, 36 (1913), 

 No. 46, pp. 547-549; ahs. in Berlin. Tierdrztl. Wchnschr., 30 (1914), ^^0. 6, p. 

 97). — In a barn in which five months previously animals were vaccinated 

 against anthrax with Pasteur's vaccine (I and II), death occurred amongst 

 the animals. Serum treatment was given and no new cases occurred. Nine 

 months later a newly-imported but not vaccinated animal died from anthrax 

 and the other animals in the barn received injections of 10 cc. of serum as 

 before. This resulted in the production of typical anaphylactic symptoms. 



