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is followed by one aiming at stopping the itching, a paste containing 

 menthol being used. Men told ofE to attend to infected horses should 

 be provided with overalls with an elastic collar and wristlets. 



OiMeTTj fltflTenbHocTM 6-ro C"bt3fla PocciMCKMXi> TepaneBTOBi>. 



[Report on the Work of the 6th Congress of Russian Therapeutists.] 

 — « MeflMLlMHCKoe 06o3ptHie.)> [Medical Review], Moscow, 

 lxxxvii,no. 1-2, 1917, pp. 97-103. 



Several papers dealing with the role of insects as carriers of infectious 

 diseases were read at the Congress. Dr. Marzinovsky pointed out the 

 great importance which this question has acquired during the War 

 and as a consequence of the medical officers generally not having been 

 properly equipped to deal with it. He advocated the institution of 

 special courses on tropical diseases and of a separate course on insect 

 carriers of disease, and the establishment of tropical institutes in 

 Caucasia and Turkestan. For the time being special courses on these 

 subjects should be instituted for medical officers working with the 

 armies. 



Marzinovsky (Dr. E. I.). Grahamella [About Grahamelh.] — • 

 « MeflMl^MHCKOe 0603ptHie.» [Medical Review], Moscow, Ixxxvii, 

 no. 1-2, 1917, pp. 84-86, 3 figs. 



While studying piroplasmosis in cattle, the author found Grahamella 

 bodies in the blood of a bull, which exhibited marked anaemia, but 

 was not infected with piroplasmosis. Investigation of examples of 

 the tick, Margaropus (Boojihilus) calcarotus, taken from this animal, 

 demonstrated the presence of Grahamella in their intestines. Graha- 

 mella would therefore appear to be a Protozoan parasite of which ticks 

 are the intermediate hosts. 



Tarassevitch (Prof. L. A.) & Marzinovsky (Dr. E. I.). CoBpeMeHHblfl 

 AaHHbifl no snMAeMiojioriM h npoc|)MJiaKTHKt cbinHoro TM())a. 



I Recent Data on the Epidemiology and Prophylaxis of Exanthe- 

 matous Typhus.]— « MeAMUMHCKOe 0603ptHie.» [Medical 

 Review], Moscoiv, Ixxxvii, no. 1-2, pp. 212-213. 



This is a short review of the papers read by the authors at a meeting 

 of the Section of Bacteriology of the Society of Friends of Natural 

 History, Anthropology and Ethnography. The first author, on the 

 strength of his experience in the War, stated that typhus infections 

 usually occur only through the agency of lice and that measures of 

 disinfection provide adequate means for the control of the disease. 

 This was also the view taken by Dr. Marzinovsky, who thought that 

 cases of infection not caused by lice are very exceptional. He gave an 

 account of the spread of the epidemic on the front in Caucasia and 

 Armenia ; during the second year of the War, as a result of energetic 

 measures, the death-rate has been lowered from 70 per cent, to from 

 13 to 25 per cent. 



