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disease are briefly considered with notes on suitable methods of controlling the dis- 

 lase. [t is recommended that infected animals be immediately isolated or slaugh- 

 tered and the premises thoroughly disinfected. 



An epizootic inflammation of the pharnyx in horses, ki'iui: {Balm. 

 Tierarztl. Wchmchr., 1905, No. 10, pp. 185, 186). This disease occasionally breaks 

 nut in extensive epizootics and the author had occasion to observe a number of casee 

 in artillery horses. 



The appetite remains fairly good and there is little change in the rat.' of pulse and 

 respiration. A slight elevation ft' temperature is usually observed. The incubation 

 period is 7 or s days on an average. The disease appears to affect only mature or 

 >ld horses. The lymph glands become somewhal infiltrated and in Borne cases 

 levelop abscesses. It appears to Ik- somewhal uncertain whether this infectious 

 form "i pilars ngitis is a distinct disease or a mixed infection. 



Glanders and farcy, R. S. Huidekoper (U. S. Dept. Agr., />'"/-. Anim. Indus. 

 ( ire. 78, pp. IS). — This is a revision by 1>. Pearson of an article in tin- Special Report 

 on the Diseases of the Morse (E. S. K., L5, p. 620). 



Glanders and farcy, E. Thierry | ./<>nr. Agr. Prat, n. ser., 9 ( 1905 I, No. :>, /</>. ?84, 

 . —The author's opinion regarding the value of mallein in the detection of glan- 

 ders is thai this agent furnishes an absolutely certain means of diagnosing the dis- 

 ease. Mallein, however, does not ser\c to protect animals against the development 

 of glanders. 



Glanders, .1. S. Pollard (Ann. Rpt. lid. Agr. II. /., 20 (1904), pp- U0-11S . 

 The percentage of glanders among horses is said to he considerably on the increase. 

 Attention is, therefore, called to the dangers of infection from this disease in order 

 to stimulate efforts for controlling it. Since treatment of glanders is not permissible 

 in Rhode Island, it is desirable that the owners of all glanderous horses may notify 

 the officials at once so that they may he destroyed according to law and prevent 

 unnecessary infection with the disease. 



Diseases of the nasal cavity resembling glanders, N. I. Petropavlovski 

 (Arch. Vet. Nauk [St. Petersb.'}, 35 (1905), No. 6, pp. 441-447).— A short account is 

 presented of inflammatory diseases of the nasal cavity accompanied. with nasal dis- 

 charges and resembling glanders. 



Swine plague, Martensen ( l'» rlin. Tu rarztl. Wchnschr., iuu.~>, No. l",/>/>- 188, 189).— 

 A description is given of the symptoms of intestinal catarrh of hogs referred to by 

 Grips. Glage, and Nieberle as swine plague. 



According to the author's experience the polyvalent serum recommended by these 

 author.- is quite inactive when used against true swine plague. In the author's opin- 

 ion it is doubtful whether true swine plague assume^ a chronic form resembling 

 catarrh. The quarantine measures recommended by (dips and his associates in the 

 control of swine plague air considered as unnecessarily severe. 



Notes on swine plague, Bunge (Berlin. Tierarztl. Wchnschr., /:»>■'>, No. .''. pp. /'-'/'. 

 165 ).— An outbreak of this disease occurred among a herd of l'h hogs. For the pur- 

 pose of preventing the further spread of the disease the author inoculated 13 hogs 



with hog cholera s« •rui 1 1 in doses var\ ing from 10 to 20 CC. Some of t he animals w ere 

 subsequently vaccinated with a mixture of hog cholera serum ami polyvalent swine 

 plague serum. After this vaccination no further cases of the disease appeared in the 



herd. 



The control of swine plague, Lothes I Berlin. Tierarztl. Wchnschr., 1906, No. 6, 



pp. Wl-io.')). — The author argues in favor of the strict enforcement of the require- 

 ments for notification of the existence of this disease and of the application of suitable 

 antiseptic and sanitary measures. Certain authors Suggested a relaxation of the 

 requirements in this regard, hut it is believed that no advantage can be secured by 



such a procedure either to the hog raisers or to the veterinary authorit 

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