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Origin of parotitis
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After a trip to the ER and several follow-up visits while doctors worked on a diagnosis that turned out to be parotitis, an infection of the glands, Chandler’s bills reached $1,300.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2016
Is this a reference to the septic parotitis not unfrequently seen in low fevers?
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Instances have been reported of double parotitis, and in several of them the termination of the attack was fatal.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Here, also, belong croupous pneumonia, the allied disease erysipelas, certain puerperal processes, and finally, parotitis epidemica, or mumps.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
These two last cases are not related as being certainly owing to parotitis, but as they might probably have that origin.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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