Vulgarly called the MUMPS. 6l 



nitude, and the diftemper its acme ; for, about the morning of 

 the fourth day from the firft appearance of the fwelling, a dis- 

 charge begins from the emunctories behind the ears ; a dew- 

 like fweat, frequently in large drops, ifTues from every pore of 

 the extended furface of the tumor ; a gentle diaphorefis covers 

 the body, if in bed ; the inflammation abates, the fwelling 

 gradually leffens, and, with thefe favourable circumftances, the 

 fever goes off, and the diftemper totally difappears about the 

 fixth day, if nature is not interrupted in her bufinefs. Bur, 

 if the tumor fubfides fuddenly about the fourth day, and 

 one or both tefticles begin to fwell, fometimes with much 

 pain, heat, inflammation, new rigors, and a frefh exacerba- 

 tion of fever, much is to be apprehended from this new mor- 

 bid appearance, and much circumfpection is required in the 

 treatment of it. For the means employed by nature to promote- 

 the refolution of the tumified teftes, are exactly (imilar to thofe 

 which take place in the termination of the tumors below the 

 ears ; a fpontaneous difcharge ifTues from the fkin of the parts- 

 affected, and, if this is copious and continued, and accompanied 

 with a free perfpiration from the furface of the whole body in 

 bed, the difeafe ends happily without farther trouble ; but if 

 it is fcanty, partial, or interrupted by accidental cold or impru- 

 dent treatment, the tumors of the tefticles fubfide fuddenly, 

 the patient becomes reftlefs, a frefh exacerbation of fever en- 

 fues, the head is affected, delirium follows, with convulfions 

 and other dreadful fymptoms, and fometimes death clofes the 

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It may be afked, Whence does this train of fymptoms 

 arife ? Is it from a tumefaction of the brain taking place in the 

 inftant of the fudden diminution of the tumors of the teftes ; 

 as we have before feen happen to the tefticles, when the faliva- 

 ry glands fuddenly fubfided ? 



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