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The rabbit may be without difficulty vaccinated against the 
effect of cultures of the influenza bacillus. (2) The "material 
best suited for the vaccination, in that it gives the highest grade 
of immunity, is obtained by filtering serum cultures of the 
bacillus through Berkefeld filters. (3) The serum of animals 
thus vaccinated possesses a marked antitoxic but no bacteri¬ 
cidal power. (4) This serum also possesses the property of 
conferring on other animals immunity both against the infec¬ 
tion and intoxication produced by cultures of the bacillus. 
This property is so powerful that injections of the serum in the 
proportion of 1-42000th of the body weight suffice to induce 
immunity, or perhaps even less. (5) The serum has also a 
marked curative action, reducing the temperature of already 
affected animals, and preventing an otherwise certainly fatal 
ssue.— Ibid. 
PARIS CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS. 
The following resolutions concluded the work of this impor¬ 
tant meeting held in Paris last July: 
1. That butchers’ meat should not be offered for sale until 
it has been passed as healthy by a competent inspector, and 
that the inspection of meat should be made in villages as well 
as in towns. 
2. That public schools should be provided with spittoons in 
sufficient number, so as to prevent children spitting on the floors 
and that instructions be addressed in this sense to the managers. 
3. That there is reason to demand that every animal about 
to be exhibited at a show subventioned by the state shall have 
been previously submitted to the tuberculis test. 
4. That the tutors and inspectors of the Academy follow the 
example of those of Bordeaux and Chermont, and invite the in- 
stitutors to join in popularising prescriptions against the con¬ 
tagion of tuberculosis. 
5. That dead bodies should undergo an absolute disinfection 
before burial. 
