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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
often succeed in dogs, because of the thin layer of sub-cuta- 
taneous cellular tissue they possess, while they fail in rabbits, 
whose cellular tissue is thin, and the skin strongly adherent 
to the cutaneous muscle .—Revue des Sc. Medic. 
STUDY UPON IMMUNITY IN RELATION TO ANTHRAX. 
By Prof. Perronoito. 
A vaccinated ram was inoculated with anthrax matter, by 
Perroncito, seven times, with varying intervals between the 
injections. The first merely gave rise to a little fever, and 
four days after the last injection, the animal was killed: At 
the point of inoculation a sero-gelatinous infiltration was 
found, and a little below it, a purulent nodule. The pus, 
however, though it contained at the same time streptococcus 
pyogenis and sporiferous threads, having all the appearance 
of those of bacillus anthracis, with granules in all respects 
resembling spores, did not produce the bacillus anthracis when 
placed in culture. The cultures made with various tissues, 
and their inoculations to guinea pigs remained negative. 
From this experiment the author comes to the conclusion 
that there is a rapid destruction in the tissues of vaccinated 
animals, of the forms of virus, even the most resisting, such 
as the spores .—Annales de Pasteur. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY, 
NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE PRATIQUE DE MEDECINE, CHIRURGIE 
AND HYGIENE VETERINAIRES, begun by II. Bouley and continued 
by A. Sanson, L. Trasbot, Ed. Nocard.—Vol. XVI. and XVII. (Asselin 
and Houzeau.—Paris).* 
Two new volumes are here added to the excellent ency 
clopedia of veterinary science which, beginning more than 
thirty years ago, will doubtless witness the lapse of several 
more years before the completed work winds up with the in¬ 
evitable “ finis.” These volumes are equal, in the importance 
of the topics they discuss and the ability with which they are 
*New Dictionary of Practice of Veterinary Medicine, Surgery and Hygiene. 
