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When women are affected with this complaint, after the 

 fwelling of the parotis and maxillary glands fubfides, tumor with 

 pain is liable to affect their breads •, which, however, I have nev- 

 er leen terminate in fuppuration. 



On the retroceffion Of the tumor of the teftes above defcribed, 

 and I fuppofe of that of the breaits in women, a delirium of the 

 calm kind is very liable to occur ; which in fome cafes has been 

 the firft fymptom which has alarmed the friends of the patient ; 

 and it has thence been difficult to difcover the cauie of rt with- 

 out much inquiry ; the previous fymptoms having been fo flight 

 as not to have occafioned any complaints. In this delirium, if 

 the pulfe will bear it, venisection mould be ufedj and three or 

 four grains of calomel, with fomentation of the head with warm 

 water for an hour together every three or four hours. 



Though this difeafe generally terminates favourably confider- 

 ing the numbers attacked by it, when it is epidemic, yet it is 

 dangerous at other times in every part of its progrefs. Some- 

 times the parotis or maxillary glands fuppurate, producing ul- 

 cers which are difficult to cure, and frequently deltroy the pa- 

 tient, where there was a previous fcrophulous tendency. The 

 teltis in men is alfo liable to fuppurate with great pain, long con- 

 finement, and much danger ; and laftly, the affection of the 

 brain is fatal to many. 



Mr. W. "W. had a fwelled throat, which after a few days 

 fubfided. He became delirious or ftupid, in which ftate he was 

 dying wAen I faw him ; and his friends afcribed his death to a 

 coup de foleil, which he was faid to have received fome months 

 before, when he was abroad. 



Mr. A. B. had a fwelling of the throat, which after a few 

 days fubfided. When I faw him he had great ftupor, with flow 

 breathing, and partial delirium. On fomenting his head with 

 warm water for an hour thefe fymptoms of ftupor were greatly 

 leffened, and his oppreffed breathing gradually ceafed, and he re- 

 covered in one day, 



Mr. C. D. I found walking about the houfe in a calm delir- 

 ium without ftupor ; and not without much inquiry of his friends 

 could get the previous hiftory of the difeafe ; which had been 

 attended with parotitis, and fwelled teftis, previous to the deliri- 

 um. A few ounces of blood were taken away, a gentle cathar- 

 tic was directed, and his head fomented with warm water for 

 an hour, with a fmall blifter on the back, and he recovered in 

 two or three days. 



Mr. D. D. came down from London- in the coach alone, {o 

 that no previous hiftory could be obtained. He was walking a- 

 bout the houfe in a calm delirium, but could give no fenfible 



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