Mumps

(mumps). Parotitis. A highly infectious swelling of the salivary glands. Keep the patient isolated in a warm room; take the temperature night and morning; give light nutritive diet: foment the face and neck with hot water, or combined with laudanum, poppy heads or chamomile flowers, as ordered. This disease has the longest incubation period of any of the infective fevers, viz., nineteen to twenty-one days, and quarantine must therefore be most carefully enforced. A complication not uncommon is acute swelling of the testes with great pain; and occasionally acute ovaritis is seen in girls.