Preventive Inoculation for Quarter-Ill.
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ABSTRACTS AND REPORTS. There has been no further trouble, and the patient now appears in perfect health. Upon inverting the excised tumour I found one ovary filled with dark tarry blood. The other I failed to find, and it is probably still with the cat. The uterus was healthy, save for the extreme con- gestion. I afterwards learned that the cat had given birth to one kitten on the Tuesday evening, and to two others on the Wednesday forenoon. As far as could be ascertained, the uterus was everted about three hours prior to the time of advice being sought. The interesting point is that although the antiseptic measures were trivial for such a grave case, yet there was a remarkably speedy recovery. PREVENTIVE INOCULATION FOR QUARTER-ILL. THE number of animals inoculated for quarter-iII (symptomatic anthrax) in Switzerland, Austria, and Rhenish Prussia during the year 1887 was 31,659. Among 7143 of these the number of deaths from quarter-ill was 26, or 0.360/0' while out of 18,393 uninoculated animals grazed on the same pastures 366, or 2 or, succumbed to the same disease. The percentage of deaths from quarter- ill was thus 5! greater among the uninoculated than among the inoculated. In the previous year the percentage was a little over 4! times greater in the uninoculated.-Schweizer-Archiv fur Thierheilkunde, Pt. I. 1889. BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE SUB- MAXILLARY LYMPHATIC GLANDS IN GLANDERS. As an aid to diagnosis in doubtful cases of glanders, the inoculation of nasal discharge or pus from skin ulcers into the ass, guinea-pig, cat, dog, etc., has of recent years been recommended. This procedure, especially when combined with culture experiments on the most appropriate media, gives good results. But in practice there occur not rarely ases of so-called "occult glanders," where there is present neither nasal discharge nor skin affection, and where consequently the material necessary for inoculation is absent. Inasmuch as this occult glanders by its chronic course is charged with most danger of infection to horses and men, a speedy and certain diagnosis and the prompt destruction of the animal are extremely important measures of sanitary police. Rudenko, working under the direction of Professor Rajewsky in the Veterinary Institute of Kharkon, has carried out a series of experiments to determine the time at which, reckoning from the moment of infection, the glanders bacilli reach the submaxillary lymphatic glands, and how long it takes them to pass through these filters. The experiments were carried out on subjects of various ages, from six months upwards. The glanders virus was in some of the horses inoculated into the nasal mucous membrane, in others into the lung, and in a third class under the skin. As inoculating material there were employed chiefly cultures from glandered horses, cats, and dogs, but also
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Transcript of Preventive Inoculation for Quarter-Ill.
ABSTRACTS AND REPORTS.
There has been no further trouble, and the patient now appears in perfect health.
Upon inverting the excised tumour I found one ovary filled with dark tarry blood. The other I failed to find, and it is probably still with the cat. The uterus was healthy, save for the extreme congestion.
I afterwards learned that the cat had given birth to one kitten on the Tuesday evening, and to two others on the Wednesday forenoon. As far as could be ascertained, the uterus was everted about three hours prior to the time of advice being sought.
The interesting point is that although the antiseptic measures were trivial for such a grave case, yet there was a remarkably speedy recovery.
PREVENTIVE INOCULATION FOR QUARTER-ILL.
THE number of animals inoculated for quarter-iII (symptomatic anthrax) in Switzerland, Austria, and Rhenish Prussia during the year 1887 was 31,659. Among 7143 of these the number of deaths from quarter-ill was 26, or 0.360/0' while out of 18,393 uninoculated animals grazed on the same pastures 366, or 2 or, succumbed to the same disease. The percentage of deaths from quarterill was thus 5! greater among the uninoculated than among the inoculated. In the previous year the percentage was a little over 4! times greater in the uninoculated.-Schweizer-Archiv fur Thierheilkunde, Pt. I. 1889.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE SUBMAXILLARY LYMPHATIC GLANDS IN GLANDERS.
As an aid to diagnosis in doubtful cases of glanders, the inoculation of nasal discharge or pus from skin ulcers into the ass, guinea-pig, cat, dog, etc., has of recent years been recommended. This procedure, especially when combined with culture experiments on the most appropriate media, gives good results. But in practice there occur not rarely €ases of so-called "occult glanders," where there is present neither nasal discharge nor skin affection, and where consequently the material necessary for inoculation is absent. Inasmuch as this occult glanders by its chronic course is charged with most danger of infection to horses and men, a speedy and certain diagnosis and the prompt destruction of the animal are extremely important measures of sanitary police.
Rudenko, working under the direction of Professor Rajewsky in the Veterinary Institute of Kharkon, has carried out a series of experiments to determine the time at which, reckoning from the moment of infection, the glanders bacilli reach the submaxillary lymphatic glands, and how long it takes them to pass through these filters. The experiments were carried out on subjects of various ages, from six months upwards. The glanders virus was in some of the horses inoculated into the nasal mucous membrane, in others into the lung, and in a third class under the skin. As inoculating material there were employed chiefly cultures from glandered horses, cats, and dogs, but also
