IX. An Account of a Distemper, by the common Peo- 

 ple in England vulgarly called the MUMPS. By 

 Robert Hamilton, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College 

 of Phyjicians, F. R. S. Edin. and Phyftclan at Lynn Re^is, 



in Norfolk *. 



TH E mumps, or what I beg leave to call angina maxillaris, 

 is an epidemic difeafe of a very fingular nature. It has 

 appeared fometimes to be pretty general ; but this has not been 

 the cafe for many years in this place. It feems to be analogous 

 to, if not the fame diftemper v^rith that called the branks, by 

 the common people in Scotland. In the general account of epi- 

 demics, in the firft volume of the Medical Effays of Edinburgh, 

 a diforder is mentioned which feems to have been a flight de- 

 gree of that which is the fubjedl of the following paper. I 

 have had much pradlice in this difeafe, and indeed was once 

 reduced to the utmoft danger by it myfelf. 



In the following paper, I fliall not pretend to give a fyflema- 

 tic treatife on the mumps. I fhall relate what was the refult of 

 obfervation, both in regard to the hiftory and cure of this dif- 

 eafe J and as I Ihall faithfully detail what I adlually faw, I 

 flatter myfelf, that this account will not be unworthy of the 

 perufal of future obfervers. ' 



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* This paper was read before the Philofophica] Society of Edinburgh, Auguft 5. 1773. 

 It is now printed by order of the Committee for publication of the Tranfaftions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



