REFERENCES 



Prognosis. — ^This is good quoad vitam, except in old age or 

 debilitated persons. 



Treatment. — One injection of salvarsan will cure some cases, 

 while others require several injections. 



SQUIRREL-BITE DISEASE. 

 Synonym. — ^Eichhornchen-Bisskrankheit. 



Schottmiiller described a case of this infection in 1914 in a woman 

 bitten by an African squirrel, Taraxerus cepapi. The disease was 

 characterized by fever and also by nodules, which destroyed the 

 sight of one eye. Another case was a man bitten by the same 

 squirrel, and from the pus of this case Schottmiiller obtained a 

 nocardia which he called Streptothrix taraxeri cepapi. The nocardia 

 infection is probabty a complication, possibly also introduced at 

 the time of the bite, as its presence has been confirmed by numerous 

 observers, and species of nocardia are well known to live in the 

 human tonsil, and may well exist in the mouth of rats, squirrels, and 

 other animals. 



ADDENDUM. 



Weasels are also said to cause similar symptoms by their bites, 

 and it is likely that many other animals do the same, and it is 

 possible that they inoculate the bitten person or animal with various 

 types of organisms, of which spirochaetes appear to be more impor- 

 tant as regards the causation of fever. 



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 Rat-Bite Fever. 



BoRELLi (191 8). Policlinico, January 13. 



Cavina (191 7). Morgagni, August 31. 



Chagas {191 5). Brazil Medico, July 22. 



Coles (1918). Lancet, March 2, p. 350. 



Crohn (1915). Archives of Internal Medicine, June 15. 



Cruickshank (191 i). British Medical Journal. 



D'Halluin and Fievez (1918). Paris Medicale, March 23. 



Douglas, Colebrook, and Fleming (1918). Lancet, February 16. 



Frugoni (191 i). Riv. Crit. Clinica Medica. 



Hara (1906). Sei-J.-Kwai Medical Journal, xxv., vii. 75, 



Hata (1912). Munch. Med. Woch. 



HijMANS van den Bergh (1919). Ncdcr. Tijdschr. voor Geneeskundc, 

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Horder (1910). Quarterly Journal of Medicine, iii. 121. 



Ido, Ito, Wani, and Okuda (1917). Journ. of Exp. Med., Sept. i. 



Kaneko and Okuda (i 91 7) . Journal of Experimental Medicine, September i , 



KiTAGAWA AND MuKOYAMA (1917). Arch. of Int. Med.. Sept. 15. 



Low AND CocKiN (1918). British Medical" Journal, February i6. 



NiowAKA, YosHiZAWA, AND MuMEMOTO (1917). Tokyo Iji Shiushi (Spiro- 



chaetosis in the Guinea-pig), January 20. 

 Row (1918) . Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., March. 

 Solly (191 8). Lancet, March 28. 



Cat-Bite Fever. 



IzuMi AND Kato (191 7). Tokyo Iji Shinshi, April 28. 

 KiTAGAWA (191 7). Saikingaku Zasshi, May 15. 

 Sang (191 7). Iji ghimbun, September 10. 



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