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fever. Therefore the same tick can, and probably often does, infect an animal 

 with both diseases simultaneously." 



Preliminary note on a trypanosome of British cattle, S. Stockman {Jour. 

 Conipar. Path, and Tlicr., 23 {1910), No. 2, pp. 189-192, fig. i).— The discovery 

 of a nonpathogenic trypanosome in the blood of English cattle is recorded. 

 Attempts to cultivate this trypanosome on artificial media have failed. Mor- 

 phologically it appears to be indistinguishable from Trypanosoma theileri. 



Report of an outbreak of h.emorrhag'ic septicemia in sheep, S. H. Wabd 

 and W. L. Beebe {Amer. Vet. Rev., 38 {1911), No. 5, pp. 6 ',9-6 5 5). —The authors 

 here report on an investigation made of an outbreak of hemorrhagic septicemia 

 in a flock of 2,700 sheep that were shipped from Cle Eluni, Wash., to Chicago. 

 Bacterium ovisepticus was isolated and proved by inoculation to be the cause 

 of the disease. 



Osseous cachexia: A malignant bone disease of sheep, H. A. Reid and 

 B. C. Aston {Jour. New Zeal. Dept. Agr., 1 {1910), No. 6, pp. 1,22-1,21, figs. 

 2). — The occurrence in New Zealand of osseous cachexia, more commonly known 

 as osteomalacia, is recorded for the first time. 



The caseous suppuration of sheep and goats, H. Carr^ {Rev. G6n. Med. 

 V^t., 16 {1910), No. 191, pp. 617-627, fig. i).— This is a further discussion of 

 the subject (E. S. R., 22, p. 788.) 



Results with Suptol-Burow in swine plague, Tillmann {Berlin Tierdrztl. 

 Wchnsclir., 26 {1910), No. 39, p. 75S). — Good results were obtained with this 

 preiia ration. 



An atlas of equine anatomy, R. Schmaltz {Atlas dcr Anatoinie des Pferdcs. 

 Berlin, 1909, pt. 2, pp. US'], pis. 21,-62). — This second part deals with the topo- 

 graphical myology of the horse. 



The treatment of equine pneumonia by hydrogen peroxid, Bouchet {Rev. 

 Gdn. Med. V6t, 16 {1910), No. 181, pp. 1-7 ; ahs. in Vet. Rec., 23 {1910), No. 

 1170, pp. 367, 368). — The author records the results of a new treatment which 

 he adopted during an epidemic of equine pneumonia. 



All of the 11 pneumonic horses that were daily injected inti'avenously with 

 from 40 to 180 cc. of peroxid of hydrogen recovered. Only two accidents, 

 neither of them serious, occurred in the course of the numerous injections that 

 were made. One was a slight case of hcmoptj'Sis; the other was a local re- 

 action in the jugular region, due to the injection of some of the solution into 

 the peri-venous connective tissue. The peroxid of hydi'ogen used was of 12 

 volume strength, free from impurities and excessive acidity, and not more than 

 150 cc. was injected at one time. 



Infectious epidemic epididymo-vaginalitis of the horse: A clinical, anat- 

 omo-pathological, and bacteriological study, F. Guido {Rev. Gen. Med. V6t., 

 16 {1910), No. 183, pp. 129-150, figs. 15; ahs. in Vet. Rec., 23 {1910), No. 1168, 

 pp. 3J,0, 31,1). — The author reports upon anatomo-pathological and bacteriologi- 

 cal studies of material obtained by Yallee, Lesueur, and Lavergne during an 

 epizootic among a troop of 39 horses at Havre in 1S05. 



The causative agent was found to be a very small polymorphous bacillus of 

 from 3 to 5 micro-millimeters long by from ^ to 1 micro-millimeter broad; it is 

 found either in an isolated form or as a strepto-bacillus. It is extremely mobile 

 and stains well with all the basic aniline dyes, but does not take either the 

 Gram or Claudius stain. It is aerobic and grows well in all the ordinary media, 

 particularly in glycerinated media between 20 and 38° C. Vallee believes in an 

 ascending infection by the urethra, but an experimental attempt to infect in 

 this way gave a negative result. A fresh culture of the organism was injected 

 into the urethra but no pathogenic effects resulted. 



