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As the parasites are very resistant, treatment is purely symptomatic. The 

 liyperemia is combated by repeated clysters of 1 per cent alum or i per cent 

 tannin in solution. Afterwards astringents are given by mouth and cardiac 

 weakness treated with stimulants and the system strengthened by the use of 

 milk and eggs. The author has had recoveries in 95 per cent of the cases. It 

 is said that the meat can usually be used for food. 



The nodular disease of bovines an esophagostomiasis, G. Marotel {Bui. 

 Sue. Cent. Mi'd. Vet., So {I'JOS), No. 18, pi). .'i57-Jt61, fiys. ^).— Studies have 

 been made of this disease through which it has been determined to be an 

 esophagostomiasis and not an uncinariasis. The life cycle of the parasite has 

 been followed and is here described. 



Changes in the blood of parasite-infested sheep on an innutritions diet, 

 AV, GiLTNKR (Amer. Vet. Rev., 33 {1908), No. 5, pp. 557-561). — Studies made of 

 the blood of sheep infested with (Esophagostoma eolumbianum and Hcrinonchus 

 contoriiix are here reported. In the sheep studied the lesions produced by 

 O. eolumbianum, together with the occurrence of the stomach worm in small 

 numbers and a very coarse unbalanced innutritions ration, lessened the vitality 

 of the sheep and led to a fatal issue after producing a marked alteration iu 

 the blood. A decided anemia, polynuclear leucocytosis and almost total absence 

 of eosiuophiles and mast cells are said to be the characterizing features. It is 

 suggested that the change in the blood may be due to mechanical obstructions 

 by the nodules of the absorption of digested nutrients or even the prevention 

 of digestion. 



Does lime and sulphur injure wools more than other dips? S. B. Rollings 

 (.l(/r. Jour. Cape (iood Hope, S3 (1908), No. 3. pp. 377-382). — Experiments were 

 conducted with several dips in an attempt to ascertain to what extent if any 

 the wool had been injured by dippings at different stages of growth. Under 

 direction of an authority on wool each lot was scoured separately and treated 

 up to and including the dyeing stage. The expert does not draw a conclusion, 

 but from the detailed results reported, wool from sheep dipptMl in lime-sulphur 

 appears to compare favorably with that from sheep dipped iu Cooper's powder 

 and tobacco extract. 



The caustic soda and sulphur dip (Natal Agr. Jour., 11 {1908), No. 8, pp. 

 982-985, pi. 1). — Experiments here reported appear to show that the objection 

 made to the use of this dip on the ground of injuries to the wool are not well 

 founded. 



Bovine piroplasmosis observed on the Ivory Coast, G. Bouet {liul. aSoc. 

 Path. Exot., 1 (1908), No. Jf, p. 23.'f). — Piroplasmosis is reported on the Ivory 

 Coast in cows from Senegal and in bovines, particularly zebus, wliicli had re- 

 cently arrived from various iKiints of the Sudan or Sahel and which must 

 have there contracted the disease. In all these cases the blood contained more 

 or less abundantly either Pirophtiona higeminum ov 1'. mutans. Blood from one 

 of the oxen produced the disease when injected into a heifer. At the end of 

 15 days a Pi-roi)lasma of the Mgeminum type and at the end of 24 days a 

 Piroplasma of the pnrimrn type appeared. The presence of Trypanomma eazal 

 Itoul prevented a report of the i)athol()gical effect of the Piroplasma being made. 

 A heifer was also infected by the attachment of ticks, jirogeny of f('niM!«'s taken 

 on a bovine, and again /'. higeminum was found. 



The value of the agglutination reaction and of bacteriolog'ical methods in 

 the diagnosis of glanders, K. IJ. Collins (.lour. Jnfeel. Diseases. 5 {1908), 

 No. //, pp. J/Ol-Jill). — The apiilication of this reaction was followed during a 

 period of 2 years iu which time 2,rM) horses were tested. The results, in the 

 author's opinion, are not sntHciently conclusive from a practical standpoint to 

 make it a means of absolute diagnosis. 



