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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.