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Septicaemia pluriformis ovium, Miessner and Schern (Arch. Wiss. u. Prakt. 

 Tierheilk., 36 (1910), Nos. 1, pp. J,.',-96; 2, pp. 208-2^; aU. in Rev. G6n. MM. 

 V^t., 15 (J910), No. 180, pp. 705, 706).— In the first paper, following a review of 

 the literature, a number of cases are reported. An account of the affection, 

 including symptoms and pathological anatomy, is then given, with a report of 

 experimental studies of the cause and nature of the disease, etc. The second 

 paper takes up methods of combating the disease. The cultural and biological 

 properties of the bacillus are said to place it in the septicemia pluriformis 

 group. Three forms of the disease, acute, subacute, and chronic, are described. 



Treatment of dourine with trypanred and with arsenical preparations, 

 W. L. Yakimoff (Bui. Soc. Path. Exot., 4 (1911), No. 2, pp. 116, 117). — The 

 treatment of 4 stallions suffering from dourine with trypanred alone and asso- 

 ciated with arsenical preparations did not give satisfactory results. 



A report upon 112 horses satisfactorily treated by the new operation for 

 roaring- or whistling, F. Hobday (Vet. Jour., 67 (1911), No. Jf27, pp. 4-22, figs. 

 5). — In performing this operation the author now strips both ventricles, operat- 

 ing through the crico-thyroid ligament only, and without using a saw to cut the 

 thyroid cartilage or the scalpel to cut the cricoid or tracheal rings. 



Metabolism of dogs with functionally resected small intestine, E. P. Un- 

 derfill (Aincr. Jour. Physiol, 27 (1911), No 4, pp. 366-382; abs. in Jour. 

 Amcr. Med. Assoc, 56 (1911), No. 8, p. 618). — From experimental observations 

 conducted it is apparent that as much as 39 per cent of the small intestine of a 

 dog may be resected without causing significant detrimental changes in the 

 utilization of the various foods, and the animal may gain in weight. 



The verminous dermatoses of the dog, L. G. Neumann (Rev. V4t. [Tou- 

 louse]. 36 (1911), No. 2, pp. 76-83). — A review of the present knowledge of the 

 subject. 



A cerebral embolism caused by Strongylus vasorum, Capdebielle and 

 Htjssenet (Rev. V6t. [Toulouse], 37 (1911), No. 3, pp. l!,5-lh7, fig. 1).—A 

 cerebral embolism in a fox terrier of 15 months is reported upon. 



Some observations on a laboratory epidemic, principally among dogs and 

 cats, in which the animals affected presented the symptoms of the disease 

 called distemper, J. P. M'Gowan (Jour. Path, and Bact., 15 (1911), No. 3, pp. 

 372-380). — The author deals with the "bacteriology and pathological anatomy 

 of a disease found to be epidemic in several varieties of animals, which, among 

 dogs, was characterized by the following symptoms : Watering at eyes, epiphora, 

 purulent discharge from eyes, corneal ulcers; serous at first, later purulent, 

 discharge from the nose; sneezing, coughing; vomiting, diarrhea; rise of tem- 

 perature; occasionally abdominal rash; dullness, anorexia, emaciation, paralysis, 

 chorea, interstitial keratitis." 



Concerning an epizootic among cats caused by an organism of the hemor- 

 rhagic septicemia group, Z. BouCek (Centbl. Bakt. [etc.], 1. AM., Orig., 53 

 (1910), No. 3, pp. 279-293; abs. in Jour. Roy. Micros. Soc. [London], 1910, No. 

 //. p. P7). — During the course of a very fatal epizootic among cats in Bohemia 

 during 1908-9, the author made studies of the organism concerned. 



From the blood and various organs a small ovoid, nonmotile, nonsporulating. 

 Gram-negative bacillus, which showed well marked polar staining, was ob- 

 tained. The organism, to which the name Bacillus felisepticus is given, gi-ew 

 readily upon ordinary media and the feeding and inoculation of pure cultures 

 proved fatal to kittens and mice. A young cat was immunized against the 

 organism through inoculation of the bacillus of rabbit septicemia. 



In regard to anthrax infection in birds by feeding, O. Hofherr (Centbl. 

 Bakt. [etc.], 1. Abt., Orig., 55 (1910), No. 6, pp. J,3Jf-Ji6Jf).— In order to deter- 

 mine whether certahi deaths in ducks were caused by the anthrax bacillus, the 



