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 Phyfician at Lynn Regis, 

 in Norfolk *. 



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

 is an epidemic difeafe of a very lingular 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 with that called the branks, by 

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

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

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

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

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

 reduced to the utmoft danger by it myfelf. 



In the following paper, I (hall not pretend to give a fyftema- 

 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 ', and as I fhall faithfully detail what I actually 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 Philofophical Society of Edinburgh, Auguft 5. 1775. 

 It is now printed by order of the Committee for publication of the Tranfa&ions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



