Treatment of Rat-Bite Fever with Injections of Cacodylate of Soda

chest owing to the pain caused by movement of the pectoral muscles. The axillary glands were slightly enlarged. The patient said he was bitten by a rat about fifteen days before. In about four days a small red papule appeared at the site of injury. This became pustular and burst, producing a small ulcer the size of an eight-anna piece, which subsequently increased in size. He then applied quicklime as a caustic, but the ulcer spread till the loth July, when it attained its maximum size as above described.