■jpS DISEASES Class II. i. 3, 5. 



anfwers to any thing which was propofed to him. His pulfc 

 was weak and quick. Cordials, a blifter, the bark, were in vain 

 exhibited, and he died in two or three days. 



Mr. F. F. came from London in the fame manner in the 

 coach. He was mildly delirious with confiderable ftupor, and 

 moderate pulfe, and could give no account of himfelf. He con- 

 tinued in a kind of cataleptic ftupor, fo that he would remain 

 for hours in any pofture he was placed, either in his^ chair, or 

 in bed ; and did not attempt to fpeak for about a fortnight, and 

 then gradually recovered. Thefe two laft caies are not related 

 as being certainly owing to parotitis, but as they might probably 

 have that origin. 



The parotitis fuppurans, or mumps with irritated fever, is at 

 times epidemic among cats, and may be called parotitis felina ; as 

 I have reafon to believe from the fwellings under the jaws, 

 which frequently fuppurate, and are very fatal to thofe animals. 

 In the village of Haywood, in Stafford (hire, I remember a 

 whole breed of Perfian cats, with long white hair, was deftroy- 

 ed by this malady, along with almoft all the common cats of the 

 neighbourhood ; and as the parotitis or mumps had not long be- 

 fore prevailed amongft human beings in that part of the coun- 

 try, I recollect being inclined to believe, that the cats received 

 the infection from mankind ; though in all other contagious dif- 

 eafes, except the rabies canina can be fo called, no different gen- 

 era of animals naturally communicate infection to each other; 

 and I am informed, that vain efforts have been made to commu~ 

 nicate the fmall-pox and mealies to fome quadrupeds by inocu- 

 lation. A difeafe of the head and neck deftroyed almoft ail the 

 cats in Weftphalia. Savage, Nofol. Clafs X. Art. 30. 8. 



Since the above was firft publiftied, the cow-pox, variolar vac- 

 cinae, has been fuccefsfully inoculated on the human fubjectj, 

 and produced a difeafe in fome refpecls fimilar to the fmall-pox. 

 See Variola?. 



5. Catarrhus fenftivus confifts of an inflammation of the 

 membrane, which lines the noftrils and fauces. It is attended 

 with fenlitive fever alone, and is cured by the fteam of warm 

 water externally, and by diluents internally, with moderate ven- 

 efection and gentle cathartics. This may be termed catarrhus 

 fenfitivus, to diftunguifh it from the catarrhus contagiofus, and 

 is in common language called a violent cold in the head ; it dif- 

 fers from the catarrhus calidus, or warm catarrh, of Clafs I. I. 

 2. 7. in the production of new veffels, or inflammation of the 

 membrane, and the confequent more purulent appearance of 

 the difcharge. 



Jlaucedo catarrhal,is,or catarrhal hoarfenefs, isa frequentfymp- 



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