1916] VETERINAKY MEDICINE. 279 



Eeport of proceedings under tlie diseases of animals acts for the year 1914 

 {Dcpt. Affr. and Tech. Instr. IrelaM, Rpt. Diseases Anim., 1914, pp. 79). — This 

 Is the usual report (E. S. R., 32, p. 778), dealing with the occurrence of infec- 

 tious diseases of domestic animals, and giving statistical data, etc. 



Report on operations of the veterinary sanitary service of Paris and the 

 Department of the Seine during the years 1913 and 1914, H. Maktel {Rap. 

 Op6r. Serv. Vet. Sanit. Paris et Dept. Seine, 191S; 1914, pp. 167, figs. 21). — 

 These are the usual report* (E. S. R., 29, p. 880), giving detailed accounts of 

 the work of the years 1913 and 1914. 



The poisonous character of rose chafers, J. M. Bates (Science, n. ser., 4S 

 (1916), No. 1102., pp. 209, 210). — The author records a serious loss among brook 

 trout of Pine Creek, at Long Pine, Nebr., apparently due to feeding on rose 

 chafers, which feed on and sometimes strip bare willows (Salix fiuviatilis) 

 that overhang the stream. 



The significance of optimal culture media in testing disinfectants, K. 

 StJPFLE and A. Denglee (Arch. Hyg., 85 (1916), No. 4, pp. 189-197).— The opti- 

 mal media for obtaining an after-culture of staphylococci was found to be a 8 

 per cent glucose bouillon. For anthrax spores a 3 per cent glucose bouiHon 

 with the addition of 5 per cent horse or cattle serum yielded the most satis- 

 factory results. 



Antiphenol serum, Janina Wiszwiewska (Compt. Rend. Acad. Set. [Paris}, 

 161 (1915), No. 20, pp. 609-612). — The author has isolated a substance from 

 the products of intestinal putrefaction of protein which gives all the charac- 

 teristic tests with phenolic reagents but which could not be identified as any 

 known phenol derivative. The product is strongly alkaline and jxjssesses some 

 of the general characteristics of the leucomains. It Is tliermostable. When 

 administered to animals with food it produced definite and characteristic 

 sclerotic lesions of the arteries. When injected intravenously into a horse an 

 antibody was produced which was employed as a therapeutic agent. 



On the acetylene gas treatment in ringworm, sarcoptic, symbiotic, and 

 dermatodectic manges, R. Stokoe (Vet. Rec^ 28 (1915), No. U33, pp. 279, 

 280). — The author has found that powdered calcium carbid applied to the 

 affected part (which has been moistened following a thorough scrubbing) and 

 allowed to effervesce from a minute to a minute and a half, will destroy the 

 ringworm parasite. Carbid can also be used with success in destroying mange 

 parasites. 



On the refractive index of the serum in a guinea-chicken hybrid, R. Peakl 

 and J. W. GowEN (Proc. Sac. Expt. Biol, and Med., 12 (1914), No. 2, p. 4S; abs. 

 in Maine Sta. Bui. 245 (1915), pp. 292, 29S). — In connection wtih some bio- 

 chemical studies on heredity at the Maine Experiment Station it was ob- 

 served in a guinea-chicken hybrid, produced from the mating of Cornish In- 

 dian Game and guinea fowl, that " there is a definite, characteristic, and perma- 

 nent difference between the refractive index of the serum of the fowl and that 

 of the guinea ; and that in the hybrid the guinea parent is dominant in respect 

 of the physicochemical constitution of the blood as measured by the refractive 

 index." 



The origin of the antibodies of the lymph, F. C. Becht and A. B. Luck- 

 HAEDT (Amer. Jour. Physiol., 40 (1916), No. 2, pp. 366-371, figs. 5).— "The con- 

 centration of antibodies is gi-eater in the serum than in the thoracic lymph, and 

 greater in the thoracic lymph than in the neck lymph, not only in the a-ctively 

 immune animal but also in the passively immune animal; not only after 

 equilibrium is established but at the time when active exchange is occurring. 

 The source of the antibodies of the lymph is the blood by direct exchange 



