A CASE OF ERYSIPELAS

By C. D. TORPY, i.m.d.

Assistant Medical Officer, B. B. and C. I. Railway, Sirsa

I was playing tennis one evening, when one of the tennis scouts hit his foot against a sharp stone and sustained a gash on the dorsum of his foot. He was sent home to have it dressed and cleaned up. Three days later I was called 111 to see him.

His foot was much swollen, and a single large bulla covered the whole of the dorsum with a typical rash, extending by a broad, sharply-defined, slightly-raised, and infiltrated margin. The part was markedly distended by serum, but without any special redness. The bulla was antiseptically opened and a concentrated magnesium sulphate dressing every four hours was ordered. Only one 10 c.cm. ampoule of polyvalent serum was

available, and this was given intravenously. As no

more serum was available it was decided to try milk injections.

Altogether six injections of 10 c.cm. of milk were given every other day, intramuscularly, into the buttocks.

Internally, tincture of perchloride of iron in half drachm doses was given. As a dressing, only concen- trated magnesium sulphate was used.

The results were gratifying and in ten days the patient was much improved, and in less than three weeks lie was well on the road to a

complete recovery.