VETEEINARY MEDICINE. 481 



965). — The author considers the bacteria causing the 3 above-named diseases 

 as identical. 



Experimental treatment of epizootic lymphangitis in Senegal, L. Teppaz 

 (Bui. Soc. Path. Exot., 3 (IDIO), No. 7, pp. 450-453). — In the exi^eriments here 

 briefly reported, in which a number of drugs were used, the injection of 

 potassium iodid into the jugular vein was the only treatment that gave appre- 

 ciable results. 



The pathogenesis of Micrococcus melitensis, J. Eyre (Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Edinl)., 29 (1908-9), No. 6, pp. 537-581, charts 22).— A detailed report of studies 

 of M, melitensis, which is virulent to a greater or lesser degree for all the usual 

 laboratory animals, guinea pigs, rabbits, rats, mice, dogs, and monkeys. By 

 means of suitable passages its virulence for any particular species can be con- 

 siderably increased. 



The diagnosis of glanders by the precipitation reaction of Konew, J. R. 

 MoHLEK (Amer. Yet. Rev., 38 (1911), No. 4, pp. 518-524, fig. i).— The author 

 describes the test, which has been previously noted (B. S. R., 24, p. 184), and 

 details his findings with it in the laboratory of the Bureau of Animal Industry 

 of this Department and in the field. 



The results obtained were considered good. He further found that the 

 cloudy ring formed in the test can be made more distinct by adding a few drops 

 of an aqueous solution of methylene blue to the mallease reagent previous to 

 adding the serum. 



Precis of reports submitted by district residents concerning tsetse fly and 

 cattle disease in the Nyasaland Protectorate, J. B. Keeble (BuJ. Eitt. Re- 

 search, 1 (1910), No. 3, pp. 203-212, map 1). — ^Abstracts of reports sent in by 

 district residents are presented. 



Five-day spraying. — The brown tick and the East Coast fever, W. F. 

 Cooper (Jour. Agr. Sci., 3 (1910), No. 3, pp. 285-296).— " Though these trials 

 are the first of their class to be recorded, and only form a preliminary experi- 

 ment, I certainly do think that they show that, until we have more exi^eri- 

 mental data, very little reliance can be put on the five-day spraying as a pre- 

 ventive against East Coast fever; at any rate, unless the cattle have been 

 dipped continually for some time previously." 



The piroplasmoses, D. E. Salmon (Rev. Med. Vet. Mrmtevideo, 1 (1910), No. 

 1-6, pp. 24-98, figs. 20). — Following a brief discussion of the role of ticks in 

 the transmission of piroplasmosis, summarized accounts are given of bovine, 

 canine, equine, ovine, African Coast, tropical bovine, and English piroplas- 

 mosis. 



A contribution to the diagnosis of the diseases in cattle caused by small 

 piroplasms with a consideration of their distribution, G. Licpitenheld 

 (Ztschr. Hyg. u. InfektionskranJc, 65 (1910), No. 3, pp. 378-390. figs. 3; abs. in 

 Jour. Trop. Vet. Sci., 5 (1910), No. 4, PP- 621-624). — Piroplasma parvum and 

 P. mutans are the species concerned in this discussion. 



A contribution on the cultivation of piroplasmata in artificial media, B. 

 Deseler (Ztschr. Hyg. u. InfelctionslcrO'nk., 67 (1910), No. 1, pp. 115-134, pl. 

 1). — Cultivation experiments with Piroplasma canis are reported. A bibliog- 

 I'aphy of 26 titles relating to the subject is appended to the paper. 



Investigations of oriental sore: Cultivation, experimental reproduction, 

 immunization, C. Nicolle and L. Manceaux (Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 2-^ (1910), 

 No. 9, pp. 673-720, figs. 3). — This is a detailed account of the investigations 

 noted from another source (E. S. R., 23, p. 483). 



Sarcosporidiosis in the opossum and its experimental production in the 

 guinea pig by the intramuscular injection of sporozoites, S. T. Darling 

 (Bui. Soc. Path. Exot., 3 (1910), No. 8, pp. 513-518),— The author here records 



