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have been obtained from the application of a preparation consisting of salicylic 

 acid 4 oz., creolin 4 oz., liquid pitch 4 oz., sublimated sulphur 2 oz., and cotton- 

 seed oil 1 pint. The skin disease of pigs, known locally as smallpox, has been 

 demonstrated by W. J. Taylor to be due to the presence of Demodcx foUiculorum 

 suis. Dipping in a 2 per cent compound cresol solution with water greatly re- 

 lieves the condition, destroying Bacillus necrophorus which infects the papules. 



Report of the state veterinarian, C. Keane (Bien. Rpt. State Vet. Cat., 7 

 (1914), pp. lit). — This report relates largely to work with infectious diseases, 

 cattle tick eradication, scabies in sheep, etc., for the biennial period ended June 

 30, 1914. 



Report of veterinary department, C. F. Dawson, W. A. Munsell, and J. W. 

 DeMilly {Ann. Rpt. Bd. Health Fla., 26 (19U), pp. 191-247) .—Thin report 

 includes accounts of hog cholera and cattle tick eradication Avork. 



The authors have found that " the virus of hog choera is digested in the intes- 

 tinal tract of buzzards, and that the droppings of buzzards fed on the flesh of 

 hogs dead from cholera do not produce cholera when mixed in the feed of hogs. 

 . . . While the buzzard does not carry hog cholera in its droppings, it seems 

 highly probable that the buzzard does carry the virus, not only of hog cholera, 

 but of many other diseases as well, on its feet and feathers and in its vomitus." 



It is thought that the disease of dogs known as black tongue may be due to 

 the infestation of Uncinaria canina since all that were given the thymol-salts 

 treatment recovered. Reference is made to the occurrence of Aujeszky's disease 

 or mad itch (infectious bulbar paralysis) in mules in Florida. 



Report of the veterinarian, J. B. Paige {Massachusetts Sta. Rpt. 1914, pt. 

 1, pp. 67a, 68a). — The diagnosis of bacillary white diarrhea of fowls by the 

 agglutination test for Bacterium pullorum as previously described (E. S. R., 31, 

 p. 683) met with considerable success and was made use of in eliminating car- 

 riers of the disease. 



Veterinary notes, T. W. Cave {Jour. Southeast. Agr. Col. Wye, No. 22 {19 IS), 

 pp. 533-557, pi. 1). — These notes relate to prevention of white scour in calves, 

 by T. W. Cave and W. H. Reid ; blackhead in turkeys, by T. W. Cave ; notes on 

 the life histories of some nematodes parasitic in the alimentary canal of sheep, 

 with suggestions for the treatment of the animals so infected, by H. E. Hornby ; 

 parasitic gastritis and enteritis of sheep, and bacillary necrosis of the liver, a 

 disease of the unborn lamb, by T. W. Cave. 



Annual report of the veterinary service for the year 1913, W. Littlewood 

 (Ann. Rpt. Vet. Serv. Egypt, 1913, pp. 27). — This report deals largely with 

 work with contagious diseases of animals and the work of the veterinary path- 

 ological laboratory. 



Report on the civil veterinary department (including- the Insein Veteri- 

 nary School), Burma, for the year ended March 31, 1915, G. H. Evans {Ann. 

 Rpt. Civ. Vet. Dept. Burma, 1915, pp. 7-\-15, pi. 1). — This report includes ac- 

 counts of veterinary instruction, the occurrence and treatment of contagious 

 diseases, etc. 



Applied immunology, B. A. Thomas and R. H. Ivy {Philadelphia and Loiv- 

 don: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1915, pp. XV+359, pis. 26, figs. 45).— The authors deal 

 with the subject as related to the practical application of sera and bacterins 

 prophylactically, diagnostically, and therapeutically. It has been their aim to 

 omit most of the experimental research and to present theories only in so far 

 as they may assist in a more thorough comprehension of the subject. In an 

 appendix the serum treatment of hemorrhage, organotherapy, and chemotherapy 

 are dealt with. 



Investigations of the fixation of toxins by the leucocytes, Kobzakenko 

 (Ann. Inst, Pasteur, 29 (1915), No. 4, pp. 190-211). — A report of studies con- 



