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Butter making on the farm, A. B. Nystrom and R. E. Hundeetmaek (Wash- 

 ington Sfa. Popular Bui. 96 {1915), pp. 23, figs. iO).— This bulletin deals with 

 the importance of sanitation in butter making, ripening cream, steps in the 

 manufacture of butter, kinds of churns, preparing butter for market, and mar- 

 Iceting farm butter. 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Table of veterinary posology and therapeutics for students and practi- 

 tioners, G. A. BANHAir and "\V. J. Young {London: BaUUdrc, Tindall cG Cox, 

 1915, 4. ed., pp. XYI+212; rev. in Vet. Jour., 71 (1915), No. 48.% pp. 453, 454).— 

 The fourth edition of this handbook. 



Principles of general physiology, W. M. Bayxiss (London and Neio York: 

 Longmans, Green & Co., 1915, pp. XX-\-850, figs. 259). — This new volume on 

 general physiology treats of those subjects which are common to all living 

 organisms. A brief summary of the material considered is appended to each 

 chapter. 



A very complete bibliography covering SO pages is included. 



Report of the live stock sanitai-y commissioner of the State of Maine on 

 contagious diseases of animals, 1914, A. Joly (Rpt. Live Stock Sanit. Comr. 

 Me., 1914, pp. 139, pis. I'f). — A report of the occurrence of, and work of the year 

 with, diseases of animals. 



Report of the bacteriologist, W. Giltner (Michigan St a. Ept. 1915 pp. 194- 

 204). — These pages contain partial results of a study by L. R. Himmelberger of 

 the immune bodies of antihog-cholera serum and methods for diagnosing hog 

 cholera, and a review of the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease in 1914, by 

 E. T. Hallman. 



Biennial report of the state live stock inspector of the State of Tennessee, 

 1913-14, G. R. White (Bien. Rpt. State Live Stock Insp. Tenn., 1913-14, pp. 

 22, figs. 2). — This account of work for the period under report deals particu- 

 larly with that of hog-cholera control. 



Report on the veterinary division, A. S. Milne (Rpt. Dept. Sci. and Agr. 

 Brit. Guiana, 1918-14, App. 4, pp. 5). — ^A brief statement of the work of the year. 



Annual reports on the civil veterinary department. United Provinces, for 

 the years ending March 31, 1914 and 1915, E. W. OLrv'ER (Ann. Rpts. Civ. 

 ret. Dept. United Prov., 1914, pp. 4+II+25; 1915, pp. //+ 77+2 J). —These 

 annual reports include accounts of the occurrence of diseases of animals, breed- 

 ing operations, etc. 



Biological investigations of the amins derived from proteins in organ 

 extracts and body fluids, M. Guggenheim and W. Loffleb (Biocheni. Ztschr., 

 72 (1916), No. 5-6, pp. 303-324, figs. 36).— The authors have studied the effect 

 of certain amins on the isolated guinea pig intestine suspended in Ringer's solu- 

 tion. These amins are derived in the animal organism from the amino acids 

 by the cleavage of carbon dioxid, probably through the agency of bacteria, as 

 demonstrated by earlier investigators. 



Very small amounts of j3-imidazolethylamin, oxyphenylethylamiu, phenylethyl- 

 amin hydrochlorid, isoamylamin hydrochlorid, indolethylamin hydrochlorid, 

 suprarenin hydrochlorid, etc., were found to exercise a marked tonic effect. 

 Alkali salts of the higher fatty acids, gallic acid, oxalates, citrates, indol, 

 phenol, cresol, guaiacol, and disodium phosphate were found to have a similar 

 action, much larger doses, however, being necessary. In amounts less than 

 0.1 gm. per 100 cc. of Ringer's solution alipathic amino acids, silk peptone, solu- 

 tions of egg white, dioxyphenylalanin, histidin, tryptophan, paraoxypheuylacetic 

 acid, homogentisic acid, cadaverin, putrescin, etc., were found to exercise no 

 reaction. 



