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the author })elieves that many supposed cases of cerebral inflammation are identical 

 Tvith catarrlial fever. 



Methods of fighting' contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, M. G. Tarta- 

 KOVSKY and E. P. Dziiunkovski {Arch. Vet. Nauk, 30 {1900), No. 5, II, j)p. 213-232).— 

 A report of experiments with vaccine, methods for the treatment and prevention of 

 this disease, together with a study of the micro-organism. 



Tick heart -water experiments, C. P. Lounsbury {A(jr. .lour. Cape Good Hope, 16 

 {1.900), No. 11, pp. 6S3-6S7). — The author conducted experiments for the purpose of 

 determining the means by which heart water is communicated from one animal to 

 another. The results obtained from these experiments indicate that the transmission 

 of the disease is l:»rought about by the agency of the bont tick {Amblyomma hebncum). 

 The evidence obtained witii regard to Rhrpicephahu^ erertsi was not conclusive. 



The plague, P. Rubay {Ann. Med. Vet., 49 {1900), No. 2, pp. 81-87] .—A discussion 

 of the antipest-serum treatment, of the relative degree of immunity possessed by dif- 

 ferent organisms toward this disease, and on the agency of various animals as carriers 

 of the plague. 



Tag-sore in Algeria, Nocard {Rec. Med. Vet., Paris, 8. ser., 7 {1900), No. 4, pp. 

 86-90). — The author calls attention to the fact that this disease is apparently always 

 present in Algeria, and believes that this is partly due to the fact that the disease 

 assumes an unusually mild form in Algeria. 



Enzootic occurrence of cancer in animals, R. Behla {Berlin. Tierdrztl. WcJins- 

 chr., 1900, No. 10, pp. 109-113). — The author gives a statistical account of the increas- 

 ing prevalence of cancer in different countries. Attention is called to the many 

 unsolved problems in connection with the etiology of malignant tumors in animals 

 and man and to the importance of solving these problems as soon as jjossible. 



Hog-cholera remedies, H. H. Nicholson {Nebraska Sta. Rpt. 1899, pp. 43-io) . — 

 Analyses are reported of a number of worthless patent remedies which have been pro- 

 posed for the cure of hog cholera. 



A case of chronic glanders in man, R. von Barazc {Arch. Path. Anat. u. Physiol. 

 \_Virchoiv'], 159 {1900), No. 3, pp. 491-520, pi. 1). — A bacteriological and pathological 

 examination of a chronic case of glanders in man, together with a discussion of the 

 literature of the subject and a bibliography. 



The recurrence of glanders, Leblanc {Rec. Med. Vet. Paris, 8. ser., 7 {1900), No. 

 4, pp. 80-83). — This article contains observations on the recurrence of glanders after 

 apparent recovery or after mallein injections have failed to produce reaction. The 

 author believes that mallein, although a very reliable agent for detecting glanders, 

 is not infallible, since many cases have been observed where glanders has developed 

 in horses after they had ceased to react to the mallein test. 



The resistance of rabies virus to putrefaction, S. von Ratz ( Centbl. Bakt. u. 

 Par., 1. AlA., 27 {1900), No. 24, pp. 825-827). — The author's experiments consisted 

 in the production of acute cases of rabies in experimental animals and the inocula- 

 tion of other animals with material taken from the brain of the first series of animals 

 at periods of different lengths after death. The results indicate that rabies virus 

 resists the action of putrefaction for a long time, but that its virulence is gradually 

 modified. 



The influence of injections of normal nerve substance on canine rabies 

 and rabies toxine, V. Babes {Cmtbl. Bakt. u. Par., 1. Abt., 27 {1900), No. 16-17, 

 pp. 464-468). — During the author's experiments on this subject it was found that 

 injections of normal nerve substance had the effect of curing a large percentage of 

 dogs which had been inoculated with attenuated rabies virus. A similar treatment 

 was found to V)e beneficial to epileptic and melancholy people. It was shown, 

 however, that although the development of rallies in dogs could be prevented by 

 injections of normal nerve substance, this treatment did not confer immunity upon 

 the dogs. 



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