Vulgarly called the MUMPS. 6g 



circumflances, it may be prefumed, that the veflels are much 

 lefTened in diameter, and perhaps the fpermatic artery is be- 

 come impervious ; but the nerves have acquired more fenfibi- 

 lity and irritability. After his recovery, he found no other 

 inconvenience from this extraordinary change than what w^e 

 have named ; has had two children fince, one born in 1769, 

 and the other in 1772, who have both healthy conftitutions j 

 and he now enjoys as good health as moft men at his time of 

 life. 



Another cafe of a wafted tefticle in confequence of the 

 mumps, came afterwards under my infpeflion. 



A YOUNG man, of twenty-five years of age, of a healthy 

 conftitution, was, in the end of the year 1769, attacked by this 

 diftemper. Upon the tumid falivary glands fubfiding fudden- 

 ly, the tefticles became affeded. One of them was much more 

 fwelled than the other, and was found, when the fwelling was 

 reduced, to be diminiflied more than one half of its natural 

 fize, at which it remained in Auguft 1771. 



Of the great number that fell under my care, there was but 

 one cafe which terminated in fuppuration. This was a young 

 militia foldier, of about nineteen years of age, in the year 1761. 

 The tumor was on the left fide, of an enormous magnitude, 

 reaching from about an inch above the maftoid procefs to the 

 fhoulder. It was opened by incifion, and about two pints of 

 matter were difcharged. The feat of it was entirely in the cel- 

 lular membrane, no fuppuration having taken place in the fa- 

 livary glands themfelves. There were large floughs of the 

 morbid cellular membrane feparated from the vaft cavity of this 

 abfcefs ; the loofe integuments united after this very foon to the 

 parts beneath, and the man got well in a fhort time. 



About the end of the year 1762, the learned and ingenious 

 Dr Russel's CEconomia Naturse in Morbis Glandularum, fell 

 into my hands. There I was pleafed to find an account of the 



mumps, 



