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Cryptog-enetic sepsis in young' animals, H. Kabitz [ZtscJir. FlelKcJi- u. Milclilnjg., 

 IS {190'J), Nox. ^, pp. ./i-^6'; o, 'pp. SO-82). — A careful study of a number of forms of 

 this disease was made and the conclusion was reached that cryptogenetic sepsis in 

 the majority of cases is the result of infection through the umbilicus. The infection 

 frequently takes the form of a gastric disease. Placentar infection is possible but has 

 not been demonstrated. In some cases cryptogenetic sepsis is the sequela of septic 

 pneuuionia. 



Husk, hoose or parasitic disease of the lung-s of cattle, sheep, and pigs, 

 D. IIutcheox [Agv. Jour. Cape (rlnud Hope, 2? {1903), Xn. J, pp. 15.^-157).— \n Cape 

 Colony the worm which causes this disease in sheep and goats is Strongylus filaria; 

 pigs are affected with parasitic Ijronchitis due to the presence of >S'. paradoxuii; while 

 *S'. viirrnrus causes lung disease in calves. Notes are given on the symptoms, etiology, 

 and treatment of this disease. Many remedies were tried in the treatment of the 

 disease. It was found that kerosene oil produced good effects when given in doses 

 of a teaspoonful to lambs and pigs and a tablespoonful to calves. Turpentine was 

 also beneficial in similar doses. It should be mixed with milk or oil. Intratracheal 

 injections were used with good results. One of these injections contained turpen- 

 tine, chloroform, carbolic acid, and olive oil, and the other contained lilack i)oppy 

 oil, oil of turpentine, carlxtlic; acid, and purified cade oil. 



Infectious epithelioses and epitheliomata, A. .Borrel {Ann. Inst. Pantevr, 17 

 {1903), No. 2, pp. 81-123, ph. 6) . — A number of related diseases were made the sub- 

 ject of the author's investigations, including sheep pox, cow pox, smallpox, acne, 

 foot-and-mouth disease, cattle plague, and epitheliosis of mice. From a histiological 

 study of the lesions observed in sheep pox it is concluded that there is a characteristic 

 and specific element in this disease, viz, a sheep pox cell with vacuolated nucleus 

 having a pseudoparasitic content. When the localization of the sheep pox occurs 

 the process appears to begin with the mesodermic lesion accompanied with a pro- 

 liferated epithelial reaction and terminating, after a certain period, with ceUular 

 vacuolation. The process exhibits the same type in the skin, lung, liver, and kidney. 

 There is a production of epithelial tumors developed at the expense of preexisting 

 elements of the organ. In sheep pox lesions of the serous membranes there may be 

 very minute granulations scattered in the edematous tissue. As a result of a critical 

 comparison of the various epithelioses discussed by the author it is concluded that 

 cancerous diseases do not constitute a pathological group absolutely different from 

 and without analogy to infectious diseases. The author's study of epithelioses has 

 convinced him that the virulent organism of this disease may pass through Alters, 

 and should therefore l)e classified with the smaller micro-organisms. 



Human and bovine tuberculosis, N. Raw {British Med. Jour., 1903, No. 2202, 

 pp. 596-598). — The author had under his observation more than 2,000 cases of pul- 

 monary tuberculosis in man and witnessed more than 500 autopsies on cases of 

 tuberculosis. From the clinical and pathological o])servations thus made he is 

 inclined to believe that primary intestinal tuberculosis and other tuberculous infec- 

 tions of the serous membranes in cliildren are jirobably cases of l)ovine tuberculosis 

 produced by milk and are not related to human tuberculosis. The author discusses 

 the symptoms of tabes mesenterica, scrofula, tuberculous meningitis, and post-nasal 

 adenoids. The author believes that "human and bovine tuV}erculosis are separate 

 and distinct diseases, as shown ])y Professor Koch, but that the human body is 

 susceptible to both, and especially to bovine tuberculosis in the early periods of 

 life." Since the 2 diseases are so rarely seen together, it apjiears in the ojiinion of 

 the author to be reasonable to suppose that they are mutually antagonistic to each 

 other and that bovine tuberculosis may perhaps confer immunity against human 

 tuberculosis. As a preventive remedy against bovine tuberculosis the author recom- 

 mends thorough pasteurization of all milk consumed ])y young children. 



