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Vaccines of Favus and Ringworm. C. H. Lavinder. (Journ. A. M. A. 



1916, 66, 945-946.) 



A method is given for the preparation of vaccines from the fungi 

 which cause the above infections. — G. H. S. 



Treatment of Cases of Epidemic Meningitis. J. B. Neal. (Journ. 



A. M. A., 1916, 66, 862-864.) 



The author places emphasis upon the value of continued injections 

 of antimeningitis serum even though the patient shows improvement. 



Autogenous vaccines have been employed in cases which tended to 

 become chronic. — G. H. S. 



The Effect of Moderately High Atmospheric Temperatures upon the 

 Formation of Hemolysins. C.-E. A. Winslow, James Alexander 

 Miller, and W. C. Noble. (Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol, and Med., 

 1916, 13, 93-98.) 



Rabbits kept at a temperature of 29° to 32°C. were compared with 

 control rabbits kept at 18° to 21 °C. by injecting them with washed 

 sheep erythrocytes and subsequently testing the specific hemolytic 

 activity of the serum. Hemolysin formation was relatively delayed 

 in the animals kept at the higher temperature, but at the end of four 

 weeks the titre was as high in these as in the controls. Considerable 

 individual variation within the groups was observed. — W. J. M. 



An Allergic Skin Reaction to Diphtheria Bacilli. J. A. Kolmer. Proc. 



Soc. Exp. Biol, and Med., 1916, 13, 89-91. 



Diphtherin was prepared by suspending washed diphtheria bacilli 

 in salt solution and sterilizing the suspension at 60°C. for an hour. 

 Each cubic centimeter contained approximately two billion bacilli. 

 An intracutaneous injection of 0.1 cc. of diphtherin was used for the 

 test, and the usual Schick test was also made at the same time. The 

 two tests agreed in 63 per cent of the patients tested. The diphtherin 

 test is regarded as an index of bacteriolytic immunity whereas the 

 Schick test is an index of antitoxic immunity. — W. J. M. 



The Influence of Typhoid Bacilli on the Antibodies of Normal and Immune 

 Rabbits. C. G. Bull, Journ. Exp. Med., 1916, 23, 419^29. 

 The subcutaneous, intraperitoneal, or intravenous inoculation of 

 cultures of typhoid bacilli did not cause, as far as could be determined, 

 a decrease in the antibody content of the blood serum of the rabbit. 

 On the other hand, the intravenous inoculation of typhoid bacilH 

 causes a rapid mobilization of antibodies, thus increasing their con- 

 centration in the blood, to be followed somewhat later, by the pro- 

 duction of so-called acquired antibodies. No such condition as the 

 negative phase of Wright was discovered, although it was especially 

 looked for in the experiments. — G. B. W. 



