1917] VETERINARY MEDICINE. 81 



The parasite Is longer tLan the European form, females reaching 70 cm. in 

 length, and the lesions are more serious than those produced by the French 

 form. The extensive congestion may give rise to the formation of large 

 pockets in the inflamed connective tissue and frequently to encysted purulent 

 collections. 



Bovine sarcosporidiosis, E. E. Franco and I. Bobges (Arq. Inst. Bact. Camara 

 Pestana, 4 {1916), No. S, pp. 269-289, pis. 11). — Six cases of this affection in 

 cattle from the Province of Alemtejo, Portugal, were found to be caused by a 

 species belonging to the new genus Besnoitia, namely, B. besnoiti. The lesions 

 in the form of spherical yellowish granules from 0.25 to 0.4 mm. in diameter 

 were present, especially in the superficial aponeuroses and in the subcutaneous 

 tissue. In generalized infections they occurred in the connective tissue of all 

 parts of the body, head, trunk, and limbs, but were most numerous on the 

 thighs and flanks. A detailed report is given of microscopical studies. 



A list of 12 references to the literature is included. 



Vesicular stomatitis in cattle, A. Eichhorn (Amer. Jour. Vet. Med., 12 

 (1917), No. 3, pp. 162, no). — An account given by the author at the twentieth 

 annual meeing of the U. S. Live Stock Sanitary Association at Chicago, 111., in 

 December' 1916, of the recent outbreak of this affection detected at Kansas City. 

 The author found the manifestations in the mouth to resemble those of foot- 

 and-mouth disease so closely that the differentiation was only possible through 

 inoculation tests. 



"The transmission of the disease to horses from cattle and the failure to 

 transmit it to pigs, of course, would practically eliminate foot-and-mouth dis- 

 ease; but other things also substantiate a negative diagnosis as far as foot- 

 and-mouth disease is concerned. Not a single case did we observe with foot 

 lesions, either in the originally infected animals or in the exposed cattle. . . . 

 Temperatures were taken of about 100 animals, and in not a single instance 

 did we observe a temperature over 103° F. , . . 



"As far as the etiology of the disease is concerned nothing definite has yet 

 been developed." 



An outbreak of vesicular stomatitis, J. R. Mohi^b (Z7. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 Anitn. Indus. Serv. and Regulatory Announcement 116 {1911), pp. 105-107; 

 Jour. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc, 50 {1917), No. 6, pp. 667-670).— This is a brief 

 account of the outbreak of vesicular stomatitis that took place during the fall 

 of 1916, a report of which by Eichhorn is noted above, 



A note on the preparation and use of agglutinin from beans, M. Dorset 

 and R. R. Henley {Jour. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc., 50 {1917), No. 6, pp. 699- 

 702). — The following improved procedure for preparing the bean extract used 

 to secure a clear serum in hog-cholera work, as previously noted by the authors 

 (E. S. R., 35, p. 488), is described: 



The beans commonly known as the " Wisconsin pea bean " have been found 

 to yield the most satisfactory results. Other varieties may prove satisfactory, 

 but appear to be distinctly lower in agglutinative power. The dry beans should 

 be finely ground, so that about 70 per cent will pass through a 20-mesh sieve. 



To 20 gm. of the bean meal 100 cc. of physiological salt solution, containing 

 0.5 per cent crystallized phenol and heated to 60° C, is added. The mixture is 

 thoroughly stirred and placed for about one hour in a water bath, the tempera- 

 ture of which is maintained at 69 to 70°. When the extraction is completed 

 the entire contents of the flask containing the bean meal is poured into a 

 cheesecloth bag and the residue thoroughly pressed. The liquid obtained, while 

 still hot, is mixed with powdered infusorial earth in the proportion of about 

 2 gm. to 100 cc. of the extract. The mixture is then poured on a folded filter. 



