194 DISEASES CLASS II. i. 3. 4. 



ufed to nourifh the patient with acidulous and vinous panada, 

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

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

 the ulcufcles, or floughs, of the throat ; warm water and wine, 

 or acid of lemon, mould be frequently applied to the tonfils by 

 means of a fyringe, or by means of a capillary fyphon, as de- 

 fcribed in Clafs II. i. 2. I. A flight folution of blue vitriol r 

 as two grains to an ounce, or a folution of fugar of lead of about 

 fix grains to an ounce, may be of fervice , efpecially the latter, 

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

 a fmall glafs tube, or final! crow-quill with the end cut off, or 

 by a camePs-hair pencil or fponge \ to the end of either of 

 which a drop will conveniently hang by capillary attraction ; as 

 folutions of lead evidently impede the progrefs of eryfipelas on 

 the exterior {kin, when it is attended with feeble pulfe. Yet a 

 folution of alum injected frequently by a fyringe is perhaps to 

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

 which rnuft much injure the patient by its being perpetually re- 

 ceived into the lungs by refpiration. 



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

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

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

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

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



Parotitis fuppurans. The fuppurating mumps is to be diftin- 

 guifhed by the acutenefs of the pain, and the fenfitive, irritated, 

 or inflammatory fever, which attends it. 



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

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

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

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

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

 with contagion. 



Parotitis mutalilis. Mutable parotitis. A fenfitive fever on- 

 ly, or a fenfitive irritated fever, generally attends this kind. And 

 when the tumour of the parotis and maxillary glands fubfides, 

 n new fwelling occurs in fome diftant part of the fyftem ; as 

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

 ondary fever of the fmall-pox, when the tumor of the face fub- 

 fides. This new fwelling in the parotitis mutabilis is liable to 

 afreet the tefles in men, and form a painful tumor, which fhould 

 be prevented from fuppuration by very cautious means, if the 

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

 the part with coldilh water for a time, venelection, a cathartic j 

 or by a bliller on the perinDeum,, or fcrotum, or a poultice. 



