American Veterinary Review. 
NOVEMBER, 1901. 
All communications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
Dog Distemper—Successful Vaccination in Experi¬ 
mental Infection. —This news will be received by all who 
are lovers of dogs, as well as by veterinarians and bacteriolo¬ 
gists, if instead of its successes with animals experimentally 
infected, it should prove as advantageous in protecting dogs 
from natural infection, from contagion. 
This is what Dr. Physalix, of the Museum d’Histiore Natu- 
relle, has proposed to demonstrate to the Societe Pratique de 
Medecine Veterinaire, by making a number of experiments be¬ 
fore a commission elected from its members. The experiments 
are now going on. 
The researches made by Dr. Physalix are, so to speak, 
secondary to a work of Director Lignieres, the hcEmorrhagic 
septicczmias , where he described the microbe which he found in 
the organism of dogs affected with distemper. This microbe is 
a bacillus, quite long, which grows in peptone bouillon without 
clouding it, and forms small masses which collect at the bottom 
of the tube. 
Mr. Physalix has taken up the same subject and has suc¬ 
ceeded in isolating this specific microbe described by Lignieres. 
Inoculated in the veins, according to the dose and virulency, 
it kills rapidly in a length of time between five and ten hours, 
with symptoms of bulbar toxication, or again gives rise to an 
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