1012 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Report on the Austrian Veterinary Service for 1901 (Bericht uber das Oster- 

 reichische Veterinarwesen fur das Jahr 1901. Vienna: Alfred Holder, 1905, pp. 284, 



pfa ij.y A detailed account is given of the, present condition of domestic animals in 



Austria and of the prevalence of various diseases among them, particular attention 

 being devoted to foot-and-mouth disease, anthrax, blackleg, glanders, sheep pox, 

 rabies, mange, hog cholera, swine erysipelas, and other infectious diseases. Statistics 

 are presented on the losses due to such diseases, the cost of controlling them, and on 

 veterinary education. 



Poisoning- of horses, cattle, and pigs with beans containing- prussic acid, 

 C. Dammaxx and M. Behkexs {Devi. Tierarztl. Wchnschr., 14 (1906), Nos. 1, pp. 1-4; 

 2, pp. 13-16). — According to the authors' observations considerable numbers of 

 horses, cattle, and hogs have died suddenly as a result of eating beans which in most 

 cases came from foreign countries. 



In the observations first made along this line the species was not determined. 

 Prussic acid was found in the beans, however, by means of the usual tests for this 

 substance, and feeding experiments showed the presence of the poison in the beans. 

 Later a sample of beans used for feed was sent to the Berlin Botanical Garden for 

 identification, and it was found that the sample contained Phaseolus lunatus, P. vul- 

 garis, Cajanus indicus, and a species of Dolichos, All of these species of beans 

 appeared to contain prussic acid in some quantity. 



Castration of females of animals other than the horse, W. Robertsox (Agr. 

 Jour. Cape Good Hope, 28 (1906) , No. 1, pp. 90-95, figs. 5).— Notes are given on suc- 

 cessful methods of caponizing and spaying pigs and other animals. 



Experiments in serum therapy in cases of pasteurellosis of laboratory 

 animals, J. Bridre et al. (Compt. Bend. Soc. Biol. [Paris'], 60 (1906), No. 2, pp. 62, 

 63). — In the author's experiments it was found that rabbits could be gradually 

 immunized by means of injections of organisms causing pleurisy and other form- of 

 pasteurellosis. Rabbits treated in this way were not only immune to septicemia and 

 various other laboratory diseases, but furnished a serum which protected other rab- 

 bits when inoculated in doses of 2 to 4 cc. 



In the investigation of animal diseases it is quite necessary that laboratory animals 

 be protected in order to save the time which would be lost by the sudden outbreak 

 of infectious diseases among them. For this purpose sheep were used to furnish 

 serum for the vaccination of laboratory animals. The normal serum of sheep was 

 found not to possess any preventive property, but after repeated inoculation with 

 gradually increasing doses the serum was quite effective. 



Comparative study of human and animal tuberculosis, H. Kossel (Ztschr. 

 Tuberkulose, 8(1906), No. 2, pp. 101-119). — In the author's experiments, which are 

 described in detail in this article, 27 cultures of bovine tubercle bacilli were used, 

 and these cultures, after subcutaneous inoculation, produced a generalized tubercu- 

 losis in 32 out of 33 cattle, while similar inoculation with human tubercle bacilli 

 caused only local lesions. The author believes, however, that man is susceptible to 

 the bacilli which cause pearl disease in cattle. Attention is called to the biological 

 differences which appear in the human and bovine tubercle bacilli and notes are 

 given on the views expressed by Ravenel, Arloing, Lignieres, and others in discuss- 

 ing the article. 



Tuberculosis, W. P. McCray (Ann. Bpt. Penn. Dept. Agr., 10 (1904), PP- 

 692-698). — The symptoms and pathology of tuberculosis are described with particular 

 reference to the work which the live stock sanitary board of Pennsylvania has done 

 in examining cattle for tuberculosis. This board has examined and tested with 

 tuberculin 44,801 cattle and of this number 5,869 have been condemned, destroyed, 

 and paid for. 



The histology and pathogenesis of uterine and ovarian tuberculosis in 

 cattle, H. Fischer (Ztschr. Tiermed., 10 {1906), No. 1-2, pp. 82-109, pis. £).— A 



