Rhubarb to be taken next Day, and the Patient
recovered. And he adds, that all those who were treated in
this manner got well. _Prax. Med. Lib._ XVII. _sect._ iii.
_cap._ 1.

As soon as these Swellings of the parotid Glands appeared, we
endeavoured to bring them forward to Suppuration, by the Application
of emollient Cataplasms, or of gummous Plaisters; and had them opened
as soon as a Fluctuation of Matter was to be felt, and afterwards
treated them as common Abscesses. _Riverius_[19] very justly observes,
that when such Tumours encrease in such a Manner as to endanger
Suffocation, they ought to be opened before they come to Maturation;
and Dr. _Pringle_[20] desires us not to wait for a Fluctuation of
Matter, but to open the Abscess as soon as it can be supposed to have
formed.

[19] Ibid.

[20] _Pringle's Observations on the Diseases of the Army_,
Part III. chap. vii.

In _February_ 1761, three Patients in the Decline of this Fever had
Buboes formed in the Groin, which proved critical. At first, on
observing them, I suspected them to be venereal; but on examining the
Patients, they obstinately denied their having any Reason to suspect
any such Cause; and the favourable Manner in which they healed without
the Appearance of any other venereal Symptom, made me believe what
they asserted to be true; especially as such People are not shy in
owning Complaints of that Kind. The first Patient I saw who had a Bubo
in the Decline of one of these Malignant Fevers, was a Woman, Wife to
a Soldier of the thirty-seventh Regiment of Foot; she had a Child at
her Breast, and her Husband was living with her at the Time she was
taken ill of the Fever, and neither of them had the least venereal
Complaint. In a few Days afterwards, two Soldiers in other Hospitals,
towards the Decline of very bad Petechial Fevers, had likewise Buboes
formed in the Groin, without any Suspicion of a venereal Taint. Except
in these three, I did not see any critical Buboes appear in this Fever
while I was with the Troops in _Germany_; tho' Mr. _Lovet_, who
served as a Mate to the Hospitals, and who was at _Hoxter_, where we
had another Hospital established, while I was at _Paderborn_, told me,
that, in the Beginning of the Year 1761, they had several Men in the
Hospital ill of this Fever, who had critical Buboes formed in the
Groins and Armpits[21].

[21] This Symptom of Buboes is taken Notice of by Authors,
but does not