Bear's gell is a medieval nostrum, the efficacy of which has, like that of 
ginseng, been largely discredited by modern science. Recent studies by Dr. 
Sato of Tohoku Imperial University show bear's bile to have certain beneficial 
therapeutic effects, notably in infant. cholera, against which he found it 90 
percent effective, The author claims it to be of value against all diseases 
except lumbago and reports curing with it cases of influenza, pneumonia, anemia 
indigestion, and eye infections, He also postulates that if bear's bile is 
administered to a dying person just before his last breath, the body will re- 
main warm for 24 hours after death; given to a horse before a race, it will 
give the horse marvelous powers of endurance; applied to the back of the hend, 
it can be tasted immediately in the palm; thrown into water it will spin of 
its own accord; put on an old coin, it will make the metal so brittle it can 
easily be powdered, Bile from the brown bear of Hokkaido is less effective 
than biLe from the black bear of Honshu and has only one-third the market 
value, 
Ichikawa, Osamu 
1943 Camel and Elephant (Rakuda to Zo), 8vo, Tokyo, pp 1-335, 3 pl, 20 Jan 1943, 
A morphological and pathological study of camels and elephants. 
Inukai, Tetsuo 
1942 "Seals Found in Northern Japan": pt 1, Bot Zool X (10), pp 927-932, 5 fig, Oct 
1943; pt 2, Bot Zool X (11). pp 1,022-1,030. 2 fig, Nov 1942 
Describes status, breeding, food, habits, and hunting and utilization of the 
several nair seals which occur near the coasts of Hokkaido, the Kurils, and 
Sakhalin, 
Kanematsu, Mitsuzo 
1943 Asses and Mules (Ro to Ra), 12mo, Tokyo, pp 1-113, 46 fig, 30 Sep 1943, 
The chapter topics are: (1) biological consideration of ass and mle, (2) 
wild form of ass, (3) distribution of ass and mule, (4) protection and im- 
provement of ass and mule, and (5) value in use of ass and mle, 
Kawabe, Masata 
1947 "On Some Attemmts to Control Sex-'Ratio in Mammals, A Review": Seibutu, Suppl 
(1), pp 129-136, Jan 1947, erin ees 
The more important experimental efforts to control mammalian sex ratios are 
described briefly, The work has been done mostly in Europe and America, 
between 1907 and 1936, The bibliography of 21 titles on which the paper is 
based contains only one paper in Japanese, and ncething more recent than 1936, 
Kishida, Kyukichi 
1941 "Mammals of Musashi Plains" in Miscellany on the Plains of Musasni Province 
- (Musashino), edited by Tamura, G. and Honda, M., 8vo, Tokyo, pp 1-529, 49 pl, 
25 May 1941, 

The mammal section, on pp 352-393, with six text figures, is a list with 
short descriptions in popular form of the 22 species of mammals found in the 
Musashino section of the Kanto Plain, 
1941 "On Murina hilgendorfi (Peters)" Zool Mag, LIII (12), pp 585-586, Dec 1941, 
An adult mate specimen of the Japanese tuve-nesed bat was-collected alive 
28 September 1941 at Kanazawamura, Naganc Prefecture, 
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