parotis

The quantity of saliva may also be increased beyond what is natural, by the catenation of the motions of these glands with other motions, or sensations, as by an extraneous body in the ear; of which I have known an instance; or by the application of stizolobium, siliqua hirsuta, cowhage, to the seat of the parotis, as some writers have affirmed.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Sometimes the parotis or maxillary glands suppurate, producing ulcers which are difficult to cure, and frequently destroy the patient, where there was a previous scrophulous tendency.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

In many persons a delirium succeeds the swelling of the parotis, or the subsequent ones of the testes or breasts; which is sometimes fatal, and seems to arise from a sympathy of successive action, and not of synchronous action, of the membranes of the brain with those of the parotide glands.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

When women are affected with this complaint, after the swelling of the parotis and maxillary glands subsides, a tumor with pain is liable to affect their breasts; which, however, I have never seen terminate in suppuration.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

And when the tumor of the parotis and maxillary glands subsides, a new swelling occurs in some distant part of the system; as happens to the hands and feet, at the commencement of the secondary fever of the small-pox, when the tumor of the face subsides.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

_ Mumps, or branks, is a contagious inflammation of the parotis and maxillary glands, and has generally been classed under the word

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

The swelling of the testes, when that of the parotis subsides, seems to arise from the association of successive action; as the tension of the penis in hydrophobia appears to arise from the previous synchronous associations of the sensitive motions of these parts; but the manner of the production of both these associations is yet very obscure.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766