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regard to the frequency and origin of tuberculosis in man. The chapter on 

 the origin of tuberculosis considers both the human and animal sources. 



The bibliography appended is very large. 



A. new type of tubercle bacillus pathogenic in man and the lower animals, 

 0. Spengler {Ztschr. Expt. Path. n. Tlier., 6 (1909), No. 3, pp. 7V,S-75S, fifjs. 7; 

 al)s. in Jour. Roy. Micros. Soc. [London], 1910, No. J,, p. 501).— The author 

 describes a new variety of tubercle bacillus to which he gives the name 

 " humano-longus." It occurs principally in severe cases of phthisis, more par- 

 ticularly in patients from the East. It grows slowly upon glycerin serum and 

 glycerin agar, but upon a somatose-peptone-glycerin-agar medium colonies appear 

 in from 2 to 6 weeks. It is longer and thicker than Koch's bacillus, forms 

 spores which can be stained by Gram's method, and possesses a relatively high 

 degree of pathogenicity for man and animal. 



The use of antiformin for detecting tubercle bacilli in milk and milk 

 sediment, Miessner and Kuhne {Mitt. Kaiser Wilhelms Inst. Landw. Brom- 

 herff, 2 (1910), No. 3, p. 309; abs. in Berlin. Tierdrtzl. Wchnschr., 2o (1910), 

 No, 37, pp. 730, 731). — The authors show that a 2 per cent antiformin solution 

 is capable of preventing coagulation of milk for a period of 5 days and that 

 tubercle bacilli can be detected in such milk providing the antiformin has not 

 been added more than 2 days. See also previous notes (E. S. R., 20, p. 9S6; 

 21, p. 711; 23, p. 389). 



On the application of tuberculin of avian tubercle bacilli as a diagnostic 

 agent in contagious chronic intestinal inflammation of cattle, O. Bang (Ber. 

 E. Vet. Off Landhohojskolcs Lab. Landdkonom. Forsog [Copenhagen], 66 (1910), 

 pp. 41-50). — Previously noted from another source (E. S. R., 22, p. 287). 



Bovine tuberculosis in Iowa herds, H. E. Talbot (Amer. Vet. Rev., 37 

 (1910), No. 6, pp. 736-71/5). — A paper read before the Iowa Veterinary Associa- 

 tion. 



The prevention of tuberculosis in cattle, J. Niven (Brit. Med. Jour., 1909, 

 No. 25^1, pp. 699-702; ahs. in Intetmat. CentU. Gesam. Tvherkulose Forsch., /f 

 (1910), No. 9, p. 491). — "An abstract of the measures in force in Manchester, 

 and a series of suggestions, which are as follows : That money be lent at a low 

 rate by the country to pay for rehousing, in farms where there is much tuber- 

 culosis; that the country shall provide veterinary surgeons and tuberculin to 

 examine herds of cows, and shall make good any losses in the first instance; 

 that the maintenance of nontuberculous herds be made compulsory, the farmer 

 to pay for any renewal of stock ; that consuming communities shall have the 

 right of control over the production of milk which they consume ; and that millc 

 dealers entering into contracts shall be obliged to satisfy themselves that the 

 milk is produced under reasonably healthy conditions." 



Specific chronic enteritis of cattle, B. Bang (Ber. E. Vet. og Landbohoj- 

 skoles Lah. Landdkonom. Forsog [Copenhagen], 66 (1910), pp. 5-40, pis. 3, 

 figs. 3). — Previously noted from another source (E. S. R., 24, p. 283). 



Coccidiosis of African cattle, A. Balfour (5m?. Soc. Path. Exot., 3 (1910), 

 No. 7, pp. 429-431). — The author reports the probable occurrence of coccidiosis 

 in cattle at Wau, Bahr-El-Ghazal. 



Bacillus abortus of Bang, the cause of contagious abortion in cattle, 

 W. J. ilAcNEAL and Josephine E. Kerr (Jour. Infect. Diseases, 7 (1910), No. 3, 

 pp. 469-475; Jour. Trop. Vet. Sei., 5 (1910), No. 4, pp. 629-634).— Following a 

 review of investigations relating to this subject, 19 cases studied are briefly 

 reported, a summary of which is as follows: 



" Of the 19 cases examined 2 were sows and 17 were cows. Of these latter, 

 10 were delivered at term. In the other 7 delivery was premature. Of these, 

 one ease, No. 6, was clinically not an abortion due to infection. This leaves 6 



