CYNANCHE PAROTIDAEA
\sˈa͡ɪnant͡ʃ pˌaɹətɪdˈi͡ə], \sˈaɪnantʃ pˌaɹətɪdˈiə], \s_ˈaɪ_n_a_n_tʃ p_ˌa_ɹ_ə_t_ɪ_d_ˈiə]\
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The characteristic symptoms are: - a painful tumor of the parotid gland, or of the oellular tissue surrounding it, or of both, not of the suppurative kind; frequently extending to the maxillary gland. It is very conspicuous externally, and is often accompanied with swelling of the testes in the male, and of the mammae in the female; the testes being sometimes absorbed afterwards. It is generally epidemic, and apparently contagious. The treatment is very simple; the adoption merely of the antiphlogistic plan, under which it usually soon disappears. When inflammation of the mammae or testes supervenes, it must be treated as if idiopathic.
By Robley Dunglison
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