1920] EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 683 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Veterinary materia niedica and therapeutics, K. Winslow (Chicago: 

 Amer. Vet. Pub. Co., 1919, 8. ed., rev., pp. 640, figs. 22).— This edition of the 

 worli previously noted (E. S. R., 36, p. 675), which is bound in flexible leather, 

 has been wholly revised and reprinted. It is in accord with the ninth edition 

 of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia (E. S. 11., 30, p. 378), and contains a section on 

 hiolo^ical therapy by A. Eichhorn (pp. 525-563). The matter on anthelmintics 

 has been rovis«'(l by M. C. Hall. 



Veterinary education and research in South Africa, A. Theileu (Union 

 So. Africa, Dcpt. Agr. Bui. 5 (1920), pp. 6; also in Vet. Jour., 76 (1920), No. 5^3, 

 pp. S26-S31). — This is an address delivered by the Director of Veterinary Edu- 

 cation and Research at Pretoria, on April 9, 1920, on behalf of the newly founded 

 veterinary faculty of Transvaal University College. 



Report of the New York State Veterinary College for the year 1918-19 

 (Rpt. N. Y. State Vet. Col., 1918-19, pp. 222, pis. 17, figs. i5).— Papers presented 

 in this report include tlie following: Researches in Regard to Immuni/.in;; 

 Younp: Pigs, by R. R. Birch (pp. 73-90) ; Researches in the Disease of Breed- 

 ing Cattle, with Observations upon the Diseases Interfering with Reproduction 

 in Sheep and Swine, by W. L. Williams and C. M. Carpenter (pp. 91-92) ; 

 A Standard for Pleasuring the Reproductive and Dairy Efliciency of Cattle 

 (pp. 92-101) ; The Experimental Evidence of the Power of Bacillus abortus 

 of Bang to Cause Abortion (pp. 101-109) ; Tlie Nature of Contagious, Infectious, 

 or Epizootic Abortion in Cattle (pix 110-115) ; Cervicitis (pp. 116-121), Death 

 and Maceration of Fetuses of Swine (pp. 122-124), and Diseases of the Genital 

 Organs of Sheep Associated with Abortion (pp. 12.5-128), all by W. L. Wil- 

 liams; Differential Features between Melanosis and Melanosarcoma, by S. A. 

 Goldberg (pp. 158-182) ; Experiments on the Intradermal Test for Bacterium 

 pullorum, by M. Scherago and J. P. Benson (pp. 183-191) ; and the Bovine 

 Tuberculosis Problem, by V. A. Moore (pp. 192-217). 



Proceedings of the Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association, edited by 

 F. B. Hadi.ey (Proc. Wis. Vet. Med. Assoc, 5 (1920), pp. 129, figs. 2).— Among 

 the papers here presented are the following: Hog Cholera v. Hemorrhagic 

 Septicemia, by J. T. Purcell (pp. 52-57) ; Practical Hints for Vaccinating in 

 the Field, by L. B. Huff (pp. 50-60) ; Necrophorus Infection of Swine, by 

 B. A. Beach (pp. 01-63) ; Collecting and Shipping Veterinary Specimens for 

 Laboratory Examination, by F. B. Hadley (pp. 64-79) ; Sterility of Cows and 

 its Treatment, by H. Lothe (pp. 86-101) ; The Intradermal Test and Tubercu- 

 losis Eradication, by O. H. Eliason (pp. 10(5-111) ; and Accredited Herd Testing, 

 by J. S. llealy (pp. 111-117). 



E.xperiments with iodin-neol preparations, Dornis (Ztschr. Veterinark., 

 S2 (1920), A'o. 2, pp. 27, 2S).— A substitute for iodin as a disinfectant is de- 

 scribed consisting of a solution of one part of free iodin and three parts of a 

 comjiound of iodin with ricinoleic acid. This mixture is insoluble in water, 

 (liflicultly soluble in alcohol, and readily soluble in ether-alcohol, ether, chloro- 

 form, carbon disulphid, and essential and fatty oils. The iodin-neol is dis- 

 I)ensed either as a powder. In a sterilized bolus with talc, as a tincture in ethex'- 

 alcohol, or incorporated in a soap salve. 



The author has demonstrated the value of the iodin-neol bolus in wounds 

 for which an open dressing is indicated. As an antiseptic under permanent 

 dressings, as in the case of hoof operations, the tincture is preferred. The 

 latter in concentrated form is recommended as a mild caustic, and, diluted with 

 one or two parts of alcohol, as a disinfectant for infected wounds of all kinds. 



