ing solution
which may be prepared at any drug store: iodine, one drachm; iodide of
potassium, four drachms; dissolve in three ounces of soft water. Apply
to the tumor twice a day, with a feather or hair pencil.

MUMPS. (PAROTITIS.)

This is an inflammation of the parotid glands and generally occurs in
childhood. It is often epidemic, and is manifestly contagious. It
usually, though not always, appears on both sides of the neck at the
same time.

SYMPTOMS. An external, movable swelling, just below and in front of the
ear, near the angle of the jaw, is the prominent symptom. The
enlargement is not circumscribed, but hard and painful, and attended
with more or less fever, derangement of the secretions, and difficulty
in swallowing. The swelling increases until the fourth and fifth day,
when it gradually diminishes, and by the eighth or tenth is entirely
gone. Sometimes the disease is accompanied by swelling of the breasts in
the female, or the testicles in the male.

TREATMENT. Usually but little treatment is necessary. Exposure to cold
should be avoided. If severe or painful, with febrile symptoms, a hot
foot-bath and small doses of the "Compound Extract of Smart-Weed," in
some diaphoretic infusion, to induce sweating, together with small doses
of aconite, will produce good results. If swelling of the testicles
threatens (which seldom happens except on taking cold), resort should be
had to mild cathartics, the spirit vapor-bath, stimulating liniments to
the neck, and warm fomentations to the part attacked If delirium occurs,
a physician should be summoned.

INFLUENZA, OR LA GRIPPE.

This is an infectious disease, characterized by depression, and usually
associated with a catarrhal condition of the mucous membrane. It may
affect the respiratory organs or the intestinal canal. There is a marked
liability to serious complications, of which pneumonia is the most
dangerous. The disease is evidently due to a specific virus of great
infectiveness, and is more active and contagious at certain seasons and
under certain conditions of the atmosphere. By some it has been supposed
that it is due to a miasma in the air, but the character of its
infection indicates that the true virus is of a germinal nature.

Uncomplicated cases recover, but in the aged and in the delicate we may
see fatal results, due usually to the profound depression or the high
temperature to which the individual is subjected. There is much redness