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answers to any thing which was proposed to him. His pulse was 

 weak and quick. Cordials, a blister, the bark, were in vain ex- 

 hibited, and he died in two or three days. 



Mr. F. P. came from London in the same manner in the coach. 

 He was mildly delirious with considerable stupor, and moderate 

 pulse, and couid give no account of himself. He continued in a 

 kind of cataleptic stupor, so that he would remain for hours in 

 any posture he was placed, either in his chair, or in bed; and did 

 hot attempt to speak for about a fortnight, and then gradually re- 

 covered. These two last cases are not related as being certainly 

 owing to parotitis, but as they might probably have that origin. 



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

 times epidemic among cats, and may be called parotitisfelma; as 

 I have reason to believe from the swellings under the jaws, 

 which frequently suppurate, and are very fatal to those animals. 

 In the village of Hay wood, in Staffordshire, I remember a whole 

 breed of Persian cats, with long white hair, was destroyed by 

 this malady, along with almost all the common cats of the neigh- 

 bourhood; and as the parotitis or mumps had not long before 

 prevailed amongst human beings in that part of the country, I 

 recollect being inclined to believe, that the cats received the in- 

 fection from mankind; though in all other contagious diseases, 

 except the rabies canina can be so called, no different genera of 

 animals naturally communicate infection to each other; and I am 

 informed, that vain efforts have been made to communicate the 

 small-pox and measles to some quadrupeds by inoculation. A 

 disease of the head and neck destroyed almost all the cats in 

 Westphalia. Sauvage, Nosol. Class X. Art. 30. 8. 



Since the above was first published, the cow pox, variola) vac- 

 cinae, has been successfully inoculated on the human subject, 

 and produced a disease in some respects similar to the small-pox. 

 See Variolas. 



5. Catarrhus sensitivus consists of an inflammation of the 

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

 with sensitive fever alone, and is cured by the steam of warm 

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

 section and gentle cathartics. This may be termed catarrhus 

 sensitivus, to distinguish it from the catarrhus contagiosus, and is 

 in common language called a violent cold in the head; it differs 

 from the catarrhus calidus, or warm catarrh, of Class I. 1.2. 7. 

 in the production of new vessels, or inflammation of the mem- 

 brane, and the consequent more purulent appearance of the dis- 

 charge. 



Raucedo catarrhaljs, or catarrhal hoarseness, is afrequent symp- 



