RECENT WORK IN VETERINARY BACTERIOLOGY, ETC. 
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Schill also has claimed to be able to demonstrate, by a modi¬ 
fication of the Gram method, the presence in carcinomata of 
staff-shaped organisms which color only at the poles. His experi¬ 
ments are not yet completed. 
Domingos Freire, of Rio de Janeiro, now claims that the ob¬ 
jects shown by Scheurlen are identical with those already demon¬ 
strated by himself as the cause of carcinoma. 
We may hope shortly to obtain some definite proof or dis¬ 
proof of these conflicting experiments. 
E. Klein has been investigating an epidemic of foot-and- 
mouth disease in Bedfordshire. He obtained a micrococcus, * 
which he cultivated, but could not inoculate. But on feeding 
four sheep with infected fodder, two developed typical disease of 
the feet, though mouth and general condition remained normal. 
One of these animals recovered after several weeks of sickness • 
the other was killed on the fifth day of its sickness. The internal 
organs were found normal, save for haemorrhagic spots on the 
spleen. But in the vesicles and ulcers of the feet, micrococci 
similar to those obtained before were found and cultivated. 
Fourteen guinea-pigs were fed with infected food; three 
died, one was killed and found normal. In those that died no 
characteristic lesions were found, but in two chain-cocci were 
found in the blood, and in one the pus of an abscess. Inocula¬ 
tions with pus and blood were negative. 
The author believes he has discovered in this micrococcus the 
etiological factor of the disease. 
Since animals that had been inoculated remained entirely 
unhurt when fed with infected material, Klein believes that he 
can obtain a protective virus by cultivating the chain-cocci found 
in the vesicles. These inoculations do not disturb the general 
health. He draws no absolute conclusions, however, pending 
- some experiments on cattle now under way. 
Infants’ Foods. —The conditions formulated by the Com¬ 
mittee on Infants’ Foods at the American Medical Association 
are approximated more nearly by Carnrick’s Food than by any 
other with which we are familiar .—Philadelphia Medical Times. 
