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tjie symptoms niul lesions produced l).v iiifwtin>; doj^s with Anchyhtstomum 

 t) igonocrphalnm. Only small dogs wore found to contract tlio acute form. In 

 these thei-e is an acute enteritis resultinir in dysentery. It is accompanied by a 

 marked anemia and soon terminates in deatli. 



New information on Kala-azar; cultures; inoculation of dogs; etiology, 

 C. NicoLLE (Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. [Paris], 1J,6 {1908), ;Yo. 9, pp. .',98, '199).— 

 The author has experimentally reproduced Kala-azar in the dog. Ou Septem- 

 ber 21 and December 9, 1907, a young dog was inoculated in the liver and 

 within the peritoneum with blood from the spleen of a child affected with the 

 disease. On February 27, 190S, the dog was killed wdiile still in a healthy con- 

 dition. Numerous typical l.eishman bodies were found in the spleen and bone 

 marrow, and also, thougli more rarely, in the liver. These bodies appear to be 

 identical with those found in the child. It is said that of 4 cases of the disease 

 observed in children in Tunis, 2 had been frequently in contact with diseased 

 dogs. The author is led to conclude that Kala-azar is a disease of the dog that 

 is probably transmitted to man by ectoparasites. 



Canine origin of Kala-azar, C. Nicolle and C. Comte {Compt. Rend. Acad. 

 Sri. [Paris], I'fG {1908), Xo. /}, pp. 789-791). — Of 40 dogs examined at the 

 jtound in Tunis, one was found with Leishmau bodies in its spleen, bone marrow, 

 and liver. The disease is said to be very difficult to diagnose, since the animals 

 only occasionally api)ear sick and as it is difficult to detect the parasites in the 

 l>erii)lieral blood. 



A disease of fowls simulating in some respects fowl cholera, W. Robebt- 

 SON {Agr. Jour. Cape Good Uopc, 32 {1908), No. 5, pp. 577-579, figs. 2).— The 

 author here reports an investigation made on a disease in which all classes of 

 fowls are affected and in which the mortality is very high. It was found to bo 

 due to a bacillus different from fowl cholera. The culture and blood from 

 affected animals remained in a virulent condition for a long period of time. 

 The infection is not conveyed by feces direct, and cages, etc., do not seem to 

 spread the disease. 



A case of spirillosis of fowls in Bulgaria, G. Gareitschnoff {Vet. Sbirka, 

 1907, Xo. 7; ah.s. in Bui. Inst. Pastrur, (J (1908), No. 12, p. .5.5.5 ) .—This is the 

 report of an observation gf the disease in Bulgaria. 



Spirochetosis of Cypriote fowls, G. A. Williamson {Jour. Trop. Med. and 

 Hlig. [London], II (1908), No. 12, p. 181). — The mortality as reported was 

 very high, probably between 80 and 90 per cent in chickens, although less 

 among older fowls. A spirochsete, probably Spirochwta gatUnarum, was found 

 in large numbers during the height of the disease. Ticks of the species Argas 

 rcflexus were found, the larva on the fowls and the adults in the crevices of 

 the wood of the henhouse. Ducks on the same run with the fowls have been 

 observed with similar symptoms of spirochetosis and the same species of tick 

 was found upon them. It thus appears that A. rcflexus as well as A. persicus 

 transmits spirochetosis and suggests the possibility that K. gnUinarum and 

 »S. anscrinum are not true species. 



Fowl spirochaetiasis in Tunis (Jour. Trop. Med. and Ih/g. [London], 11 

 (1908), No. I'), PI). 2.i9, 2'i0.) — Ticks of the si)ecies Argas persicus sent from a 

 small place near Kairwan, Tunis, transmitted spirochetosis to fowls. 



Animal parasites and parasitic diseases, B. F. Kaupp (Chicago, 1908, pp. 

 207, figs. 7.i). — An ei)itome of animal i)arasites intended for use by the student 

 and busy i)ractitioner. The sul)ject is treated in four chapters under the head- 

 ings ectozoa, eutozoa, protozoa, and the preparation of specimens. 



