Reporting a New Form of Rat-Bite Fever or Sodoku in Bombay (The Gummatoid Form)
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was published in a European language by Miyake who referred to the disease as Rattenbisskrankheit. Within the last forty years, a voluminous literature has appeared on the subject, especially in France. Vakil and Shah (1942) drew attention to the presence of several tender, ' gummatous' or ' gummatoid' lumps within the muscles and periosteum during the febrile stage of the disease. After indicating the extreme rarity of such a manifestation, they suggested that the case in question might be representative of a hitherto
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