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The nasal secretions from individuals ill with colds were diluted with 

 physiological salt solution and filtered through Berkefeld filters. The 

 filtrates, when cultivated aerobically and anaerobically upon blood 

 agar were sterile. Of ten men who were inoculated by placing some 

 of the filtrate in the nostrils, nine developed colds. 



The filtrates can be cultivated anaerobically in tissue — ^ascitic fluid. 

 Stained preparations of the cultures were questionable but dark field 

 examination showed the presence of active minute bodies possessing 

 true motility. 



Subcultures were prepared, filtered, and used to inoculate 11 men. 

 After an incubation period of from eight to forty-eight hours all the 

 men became ill with acute colds. 



Filtrates from these experimentally produced colds could be culti- 

 vated.— G. H. S. 



The Production of Amyloid Disease and Chronic Nephritis in Rabbits 



by Repeated Intravenous Injections of Living Colon Bacilli. C. H. 



Bailey. (Jour. Exp. Med., 1916, 23, 773-790.) 



The repeated intravenous injection of rabbits with living Bacillus 

 com^nunior over long periods has resulted in the formation of amyloid 

 deposits in the spleen, liver, and kidneys. Suppurative lesions were 

 not present in most cases and therefore not a factor in their production. 

 The results have been constant in that amyloid was found in all rab- 

 bits, eight in number, which were injected over a period of eighty-eight 

 days or more. Eight rabbits showed amyloid in the spleen, six of 

 these in the kidneys also, and three in the liver. 



The kidneys of these eight rabbits also showed as a result of the in- 

 jections a subacute and chronic glomerulitis, parenchymatous degen- 

 eration, some interstitial infiltration with round cells, and a slight 

 cellular proliferation of connective tissue, thus resembhng the chronic 

 parenchyinatous nephritis of man which is so commonly associated 

 with amyloid disease. — B. W. 



Anthrax with Report of Cases. S. J. Ullman. (Surgery, Gjm., and 



Obstet., 1916, 22, 450.) 



Reports two fatal cases of anthrax occurring in negroes who had 

 helped to skin the carcass of a cow. The animals on this pasture were 

 vaccinated against anthrax but one cow had escaped while being driven 

 up. Several months later it was found dead on the range. Showing 

 no lesion it was ordered to be skinned. Two days after this one of the 

 negroes was taken sick; he died on the eighth day of the disease, no 

 physician having been called. The other negro was taken sick a week 

 later. He was treated with anthrax vaccine and with serum from a 

 horse inoculated against anthrax, but died one week after symptoms 

 developed. 



Two other negroes who helped do the skinning were taken sick two 

 weeks afterward. Serum was given immediately; they recovered. 



The author is not sure that these two had anthrax but does believe 

 a standard serum is of considerable value. — C. P. B. 



