Vulgarly called the MUMPS. 67 



die curtains of the bed were kept open, and a free ventilation 

 occafionally admitted by the door and windows of the cham- 

 bers of the nek, which had very beneficial effects. 



In the fpring of the year 1758, a gentleman of about twenty- 

 two years of age, (of this town), of a plethoric habit, was feized 

 with the mumps. The tumors of the parotid and maxillary- 

 glands were large, hard and inflamed, and accompanied with 

 much fever. He was bled copioufly, and took a brifk cathar- 

 tic, which produced very frequent and large evacuations. The 

 tumors fuddenly fubfided, and his tefticles as fuddenly fwelled 

 to an enormous fize, attended with great pain and much fever. 

 Unfortunately, the lafl tumefaction was fufpedted to arife from 

 a venereal caufe. The event fatally proved the contrary. In 

 confequence of the opinion of its being venereal, plentiful eva- 

 cuations were deemed neceflary ; and accordingly bleeding and 

 brifk purging were again repeated. The cataftrophe was dread- 

 ful : For the fwelled tefticles fubfided fuddenly the next day, 

 the patient was feized with a mod frantic delirium, the nervous 

 fyftem was mattered with ftrong convulfions, and he died' 

 raving mad the third day after. My affairs calling me abroad 

 prevented my being prefent on this occafion ; but, on my re- 

 turn, at the end of the fame year, I received this account from 

 a late learned and worthy phyfician *, who attended the patient 

 the three lafl days of his difeafe. 



I had not many inftances where the brain was affected. 

 One, however, of a gentleman, in April 1762, was marked 

 with a circumflance fo extraordinary, that I beg leave to give 

 fome account of it. This perfon was about forty years of age, 

 of a full habit, and had been bled fome days before any fymp- 

 tom of the mumps appeared. He was obliged to travel a jour- 

 ney in a chaife, the fecond day after the parotid glands began to 

 fwell. On the day following this, the tumors of the falivary 



i 2 glanda 



* Dr Jos. TAYtER. 



