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a complement body represented by the globulin but also to the lecithin contained 

 in the albumin Iraition." 



Anaplnsnis and anaplnsmosis (Vet. hcv., 4 (1020), No. 2, pp. 100-16ff). — 

 Six recent papers on the subject are here reviewed. 



Blackleg infection by ingestion, V. Ronca (CUn. Vet. [Milmi], Rass. Polizia 

 Sanit. e Ig., ^3 {1920), No. 7-9, pp. 195-210).— This is the report of a series of 

 experiments undertaken to determine the possibility of blackles; infection 

 (hroUKh inpestion of the causative organism, with a view to ascertaining the 

 possible dariKers of blackleg infection thiouiih feeding in infected pastures. 

 The investigation included a series of experiments in vitro to deterurine the 

 effect of the digestive juices on the virus and in vivo to determine the actfbn 

 of the virus when introduced into the gastro-inte.stinal tract. 



The digestive juices (gastric, intestinal, pancreatic, and bile) of cows, swine, 

 guinea pigs, asses, and dogs had no effect in vitro on the vlruience of the 

 bacilli and spores of blackleg. 



Experimental blackleg infection of guinea pigs was successful only with 

 the use of massive doses of high virulence. By direct introduction into the 

 intestines of a solution of lactic acid followed by blackleg virus the disease 

 was easily produced. The organisms thus introduced, entering into the cir- 

 culation, became localized by preference in the testicles, which showed the 

 characteristic changes of the infective process. 



The author concludes that under certain favorable conditions blackleg in- 

 fection may be brought about by ingestion of the virus, which, unaltered by 

 pas.sage through the stomach, may gain access to the circulation through some 

 vulnerable point in the intestinal cell walls. 



Epizootic lymphangitis {Vet. Rev., Jf {1020), No. 2, pp. l/,9-l 51). —This is a 

 review of fnur recent papers on the subject. 



A new immunity reaction, E. Mkimcke {Dent. Med. M'ehnschr., J/o {1019), 

 No. SO, pp. 821, S22). — This is a brief description of the lipoid-fixation reaction 

 for glanders previously noted (E. S. R., 43, p. 278). 



Bacilli of the hog cholera group (Bacillus choleraj suis) in man, C. Ten- 

 HKOECK {Jour. Expt. Med., 32 {1920), No. 1, pp. 33-40). — This report of investiga- 

 tions by the Department of Animal Pathologj' of the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research at Princeton, N. J., has been summarized as follows: 



" The organisms isolated by Hirschfeld from febrile cases resembling para- 

 typhoid fever and named Paraty])hoid C can be placed in the hog cholera 

 bacillus group by their agglutination absorption properties though they are 

 not typical culturally. When fed to a pig a febrile disease resulted from 

 which the animal recovered. After injection of hog cholera virus the organisms 

 fed were found generally distributed, and some of them had lost cultural char- 

 acters so that they are brought into tlie class of typical hog cholera bacilli 

 except for their low virulence for rabbits. While hog cholera bacilli have 

 many opportunities to infect man, they either are not able to grow in the 

 human body or, what is less likely, they do grow and lose the characters that 

 distinguish thenr." 



Vaccination against sheep po.\ with sensitized virus in the department of 

 Bouches-du-Rli6ne (France), E. Canaby {Rcc. M6d. Vdt., 95 {1919), No. I4, 

 pp. 24S-2',8; abs. in Trop. Vet. Bill., 8 {1020), No. 1, pp. 61, 62).— Statistics are 

 given from the author's experience indicating the success of the method of 

 Bridr§ and Boquet (E. S. R., 29, p. GSO) of vaccination against sheep pox 

 with sensitized virus. 



Etiological studies in tuberculosis, L. Brown, S. A. Petroff, and G. Pes- 

 QUEKA {Amer. Rev. Tuberculosis, 3 {1919), No. 10, pp. 621-630).— In these studies 



