1 94 DISEASES G'LASS II. 1. 3. 4 



Used to nourish the patient with acidulous and vinous panada, 

 broth with vegetables boiled in it, sugar, cream, beer; all which 

 given frequently will contribute much to moisten, clean, and heal 

 the ulcuscles, or sloughs, of the throat; warm water and wine, 

 or acid of lemon, should be frequently applied to the tonsils by 

 means of a syringe, or by means of a capillary syphon, as de- 

 scribed in Class II. 1. 2. 1. A slight solution of blue vitriol, 

 as two grains to an ounce, or a solution of sugar of lead of about 

 six grains to an ounce, may be of service; especially the latter, 

 applied to the edges of the sloughs drop by drop, by means of 

 a small glass tube, or small crow-quill, with the end cut off, or 

 by a camel's-hair pencil or sponge; to the end of either of 

 which a drop will conveniently hang by capillary attraction; as 

 solutions of lead evidently impede the progress of erysipelas on 

 the exterior skin, when it is attended with feebte pulse. Yet a 

 solution of alum injected frequently by a syringe is perhaps to 

 be preferred, as it immediately removes the fetor of the breath, 

 which must much injure the patient by its being perpetually re-< 

 ceived into the lungs by respiration. 



4. Parotitis. Mumps, or branks, is a contagious inflamma- 

 tion of the parotis and maxillary glands, and has generally been 

 classed under the word Cynanche or Angina, to which it bears 

 no analogy. It divides itself into two kinds, which differ in the 

 degree of fever which attends them, and in the method of cure. 



Parotitis suppurans. The suppurating mumps is to be distin- 

 guished by the acuteness of the pain, and the sensitive, irritated, 

 or inflammatory fever, which attends it. 



M. M. Venesection. Cathartic with calomel three or four 

 grains repeatedly. Cool air, diluents. This antiphlogistic treat- 

 ment is to be continued no longer than is necessary to relieve 

 the violence of the pain, as the disease is attended with conta- 

 gion, and must run through a certain time, like other fevers 

 with contagion. 



Parotitis mutabilis. Mutable parotitis. A sensitive fever only, 

 or a sensitive irritated fever, generally attends this kind. And 

 when the tumour of the parotis and maxillary glands subsides, 

 a new swelling occurs in some distant part of the system; as 

 happens to the hands and feet, at the commencement of the se- 

 condary fever of the small-pox, when the tumour of the face sub- 

 sides. This new swelling in the parotitis mutabilis is liable to 

 affect the testes in men, and form a painful tumour, which should 

 be prevented from suppuration by very cautious means, if the 

 violence of the pain threaten such a termination; as by bathing 

 the part with coldish water for a time, venesection, a cathartic: 

 or by a blister on the perinaeum, or scrotum, or a poultice, 



