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Veterinary hygiene, S. J. Bonansea (Papers and Rpts. Atner. Pub. Health 

 Assoc, S2 (J90(j), pt. 1, pp. 320-324). — Attention is called to the many animal 

 diseases which may be transmitted to man through the agency of milk or other 

 animal products, or by direct contagion. In protecting man against these 

 sources of disease the author recommends the establishment of international 

 laws of veterinary sanitary police and that all countries should take special 

 steps in tbe strict enforcement of milk and meat inspection and in supervising 

 the tn'tlic in animals. 



Annual report of the State board of live stock commissioners of Ohio, T. L. 

 Calvert and P. Fischer (Ann. Rpt. Bd. Live Stock Comrs. Ohio, 6 (1907), pp. 

 J/S, figs. IS). — During the year under report, attention was given chiefly to 

 glanders, sbeep scab, and the control of shipments of southern cattle. In addi- 

 tion to this work, 32 dairy herds were tested for tubei'culosis. In a total of 911 

 cows, 33 per cent proved to be tuberculous. It is known that a large number of 

 animals are privately tested and at present there is no means of ascertaining 

 what is done with cattle found to be tuberculous in these tests. The situation 

 with regard to glanders in Ohio is improving. Attention is called to the great 

 economic importance of this disease in horse-raising localites. 



Special statements were given regarding the prevalence and distribution of 

 anthrax, actinomycosis, venereal disease in horses, foot rot, glanders, hog 

 cholera, nodular disease in sheep, rabies, mange, tuberculosis, etc. 



Annual report of the civil veterinary department, Bengal, and of the 

 Bengal veterinary college, 1906-7, E. A. Gait (Ami. Rpt. Civ. Yet. Dept. and 

 liviigal Vet. Col., 1906-7, pp. IJf). — A summary statement is made regarding 

 instruction at the Bengal veterinary college, the work of the bacteriological 

 laboratory, and other veterinary investigations. A collection is being made of 

 the biting flies of Bengal, particularly species of Tabanus, Stomoxys, Lyperosia, 

 and Hippobosca. During the year under report, considerable demonstration 

 work was carried out in the treatment of glanders, rinderpest, hemorrhagic 

 septicemia, and other diseases. An attempt is also being made to improve the 

 quality of native cattle and horses. 



Annual report of the imperial bacteriologist, 1906-7 (Calcutta: Govt., 

 1907, pp. 27). — It is stated that rinderpest serum preserved during two hot 

 seasons lost about GO per cent of its protective power. Serum prepared during 

 an unusually cold winter was much weaker than ordinary serum. The 

 elephant has been shown to be immune to rinderpest. 



A test was made of atoxyl in treating horses, mules, and rats for trypa- 

 nosomiasis. In the Plains region 8 gm. of atoxyl per 400 lbs. of body weight 

 caused only slight symptoms of colic in mules, while at greater altitudes the 

 same quantity of atoxyl sometimes produced fatal results within 85 hours. 

 Extensive tables are given showing the amount of rinderpest serum, mallein, 

 and other iireparations made and distrilmted during the year. 



Morphological changes in the spleen after infection in animals passively 

 immunized, A. Jarotzky (Arch. Path. Anat. u. Physiol. [Virchow}, 191 (1008), 

 No. 1, pp. 112-13.5). — In the experiments reported in this paper white mice 

 were chosen as the experimental animals and the bacillus of swine erysipelas 

 as the pathogenic organism. The mice received a hypodermic injection of 

 0.3 cc. serum and culture to which 0.4 cc. physiological salt solution had been 

 added. A parallel series of mice was inoculated with the culture of the bacillus 

 of swine erysipelas without having been treated with serum. In studying the 

 l)athological changes in the spleen, microscopic sections were made through 

 the whole structure of this organ. In mice inoculated with the bacillus of 

 swine erysipelas and not treated with serum the cortical layer of the spleen 

 was hyperemic and showed a large number of cells in division and also 



