A correspondent says:-"Noticing an account of the death of a man from the bite of a cat, I beg to trouble you with the following case, which occurred to myself; - I took a strange dog home, which produced consternation among the cats. One of them I took up, to effect a reconciliation between her and the dog. In her terror she bit me so severely on the first finger of the left hand, as not only to cause four of the teeth of her lower jaw to enter the flesh. but so agonizing was her bite that the pressure of her palate caused the finger to swell at the joint on the opposite side to where the lower teeth entered the finger. In a minute or two the pair, was about as excruciating as auything I ever felt - certainly greater than I have suffered from a wound. I got some tincture of arnica, diluted with about twelve times the quantity of water, and proceeded to bathe the finger well with it. In about half a minute the blood began to flow freely, the pain ceased, and the swelling abated, and up to this moment I have had no further inconvenience nor pain, not even soreness."