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It is Indicated that " since tlie bacillus of epidemic abortion of cows has 

 been found in millt it is advisable to subject aborting cows to rigid bacterio- 

 logical and immunological tests for the bacilli before permitting the distribu- 

 tion and consumption of their milk, although it has not been definitely proved 

 that the B. abortus is capable of producing abortion in women." 



The specific and nonspecific action of rabbit blood serum in the comple- 

 ment-fixation test, I. F. HuDDLESON (Jour. Immunol., 2 (1911), No. 2, pp. 147- 

 156). — Experiments by the author at the Michigan Experiment Station, to de- 

 termine whether rabbits would become infected and show Bacillus abortus 

 antibodies in their blood as a result of ingesting milk reacting positively to 

 the agglutination and complement-fixation tests, are reported in detailed tabu- 

 lar form and briefly discussed. 



It is concluded that the data do not furnish suflScient evidence to condemn 

 naturally infected milk as dangerous to rabbits by ingestion, since it shows 

 no pathogenic action and no antigenic action. A nonspecific absorption of 

 complement was found to take place in the presence of inactivated rabbit 

 blood serum and a bacterial antigen of B. abortus. No explanation of this 

 nonspecific peculiarity of rabbit blood serum is offered. 



Besistance of the anthrax bacillus to the action of sodium chlorid solu- 

 tion, J. B. BoEDOLi (Rev. Hig. y Sanidad Vet. [Spaini, 6 (1917), No. 10, pp. 

 747-751). — Experimental data are submitted which show that anthrax bacilli 

 are not affected by a 10 per cent solution of sodium chlorid, even when in 

 contact with the solution for more than a month. Guinea pigs injected with 

 a suspension of the organisms which had been in contact with the sodium 

 chlorid solution developed symptoms and died in two days with anthrax. 



Human anthrax. — Report of an outbreak am.ong tannery workers, W. H. 

 Beown and C. E. Simpson (Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 68 (1917), No. 8, pp. 608, 

 609). — Twenty-five cases of human anthrax which were reported within a 

 period of four months are noted. The clinical histories of twenty of these 

 cases which appeared to have been infected from a common source, namely, 

 three tanneries located in adjoining towns, are given in tabular form. 



The data are briefly discussed and recommendations for the control and 

 treatment of the disease submitted. 



Report on foot-and-mouth disease from 1912—1916, P. Van Hoek (Dept. 

 Landb. Nijv. en Handel [Netherlands^, Verslag. en Meded. Dir. Landb., No. 4 

 (1916), pp. 165, pis. 19). — This is a detailed report of the occurrence of and 

 control work with foot-and-mouth disease in the Netherlands from 1912 to 

 1916 and in other countries since 1911. 



Second report of the special committee for the detection of glanders, E. B. 

 AcKEEMAN ET AL. (Jour. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc., 50 (1917), No. 6, pp. 747- 

 757). — This report, by a committee of the American Veterinary Medical Associa- 

 tion, considers the cause, susceptibility, period of incubation, modes of infection, 

 symptoms, and the various diagnostic tests for glanders and recommends in 

 general that uniform measures for the control and eradication of the disease 

 by the sanitary officers of various States and Provinces be adopted. See also 

 a previous note (E. S. R., 29, p. 499). 



Rinderpest in swine, with experiments upon transmission from cattle and 

 carabao to swine and vice versa, W. H. Boynton (Philippine Agr. Rev. 

 [English Ed.], 9 (1916), No. 4, pp. 288-SS6, pis. 2, figs. 10).— The data sub- 

 mitted show that cattle, carabao, and pigs vary but slightly in susceptibility 

 to rinderpest. It appears that the disease can be transmitted practically as 

 readily from one type of animal to the other as among their individual kind. 



The treatment of tetanus with cicutin hydrobromid, Rocton (Rec. MM. 

 V6t., 92 (1916), No. 23, pp. 684-686).— A case is reported in which the injection 



