seem to be so frequent as many of them would
make us believe. Neither Dr. _Huxham_ nor Dr. _Pringle_
mention their having seen such Buboes; and Dr. _Lind_ says,
that he never saw them till the Beginning of the Year 1763.

About the same Time that these Buboes appeared, severals towards the
Decline of this Fever complained of a Pain all along the Spermatic
Chord; and soon after a Swelling of the Testicle appeared[22].
However, this Complaint was not peculiar to those who had the Fever;
for others recovering from Fluxes, and other Disorders, were likewise
affected with such Swellings. I did not observe any Symptom of this
Kind in Fevers while I was with the Troops in _Germany_, except in
_January_, _February_, _March_, and _April_ 1761. By Bleeding, and
applying emollient Fomentations and Cataplasms, and bathing the Parts
with _spiritus mindereri_ on the first Attack of the Pain, the
Swelling of the Testicle was prevented; but where no Mention was made
of this Pain till the Swelling had already begun, it commonly ended in
a Suppuration of the Scrotum or Testicle, which healed very kindly. We
had no Reason to suspect any venereal Taint in any of them.

[22] _Hippocrates_ takes Notice of Swellings of the Testicles
in Fevers. He tells us, that a Man from Alcibiades had his
left Testicle swell before the Crisis of a Fever. _See his
Second Book on Epidemics_, sect. ii. And he mentions this
Symptom as a Crisis in the ardent Fever. _See his Book on
Crises_, sect. xi.--And Dr. _Antonio Lizzari_, in a Treatise
which he published on the _Acute Diseases which were frequent
at Venice, and all over Italy, in the Years 1761, 62_, tells
us, that Abscesses of the Scrotum and Testicles frequently
followed the Measles.

Many, while recovering from this Fever, were seized with an
Ophthalmia, or Inflammation of the Eye; for the most part of one Eye
only, sometimes of both. When the Patients were strong, they were
blooded, and had Blisters applied behind the Ears; and sometimes,
where the Pain was great, had Poultices of Bread and Milk applied to
the inflamed Eye; which, with the Assistance of some cooling Physick,
commonly removed this Complaint; tho' in some obstinate Cases we were
obliged to repeat the Evacuations, to apply Leeches to the Temples;
and after the acute State of the Disorder was passed, to order the Eye
to be washed frequently with the Collyrium vitriolicum, or Collyrium