MUMPS, a popular name for a contagious epidemic inflammation and enlargement of one or both parotid salivary glands, occurring usu all in youth, males being more frequently affected than females. In some localities it disappears for years, in other places it is en demic. Epidemics usually occur in the spring or fall. One attack generally gives immunity. The period of incubation is from 7 to 20 days. The disease is sometimes preceded for a few days by malaise, loss of appetite, irritability and feverishness. Its onset is marked by stiff ness and pain about the jaws, followed by heat, pain and swelling about the lobe of the ear, earache and tinnitus aurium, fever (100° 104° F.), more or less rigidity of the neck, with distortion of the side of the head and difficulty in chewing,, swallowing and talking. The in flammation is usually at its height by the third day of the disease, and the disease has sub sided generally by the 7th or 10th day. Very seldom is there any suppuration of the affected gland. In some cases the subsidence of the gland inflammation is followed by pain and swelling of the testes of the male, and of the ovaries, vulva and breasts of the female, the complication being more common in males than in females. Occasionally a meningitis super venes. Not infrequently a middle ear catarrh follows, leading to total deafness. The term mumps is sometimes applied to a parotiditis following a local injury, diseases of the mouth, diphtheria, occlusion of the salivary duct by a foreign body, etc. There is a secondary symp tomatic or metastatic form of mumps which sometimes follows dysentery, scarlet fever, small-pox, measles, etc. The parotid gland in this form of mumps tends to suppurate. The best treatment for mumps consists in rest, pref erably in bed, the giving of saline laxatives and soft food, relieving the fever, and securing sleep by mild remedies and keeping the face warm with flannel or some other agreeable application. In cases of slow convalescence
tonics should be given.
MUN, men, Albert, COUNT DE, French poli tician: b. Lumigny, Seine et Marne, 23 Feb. 1841; d. 1914. He was graduated (1862) at Saint Cyr, and entered the army and fought in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), to be come a captain and ordnance officer of the gov ernor of Paris. He devoted himself to the Ultramontaine party and founded the Catholic Labor Circles. Owing to the complaints of the Liberals concerning such activities on the part of an officer he resigned (1875) his commis sion and, with the aid of the Clerical party, was elected (1876) as deputy. He took his place among the extreme 'Rights,' representing both Church and monarchy. He led mass meetings to agitate for the union of Church and State and social reform in the Catholic sense. In 1897 he was made member of the Academy. In 1913 he advocated the abolition of the Three-Year Military Law, but when war broke out next year his eloquent oratory was exerted exhorting his fellow-citizens to show courage and persistence. His speeches were issued in collective form (Paris 1888-1904) in seven volumes. He wrote 'Les congregations religieuses devant la Chambre' (1903) ; 'Con tre la separation' (1905) ; 'L'heure decisive' (1913).
MUN, Thomas, English merchant and po litical economist: b. London, England, June 1571; d. there, July 1641. He engaged in mer cantile business when very young, was inter ested in the Mediterranean trade and in 1615 was a director of the East India Company. As a writer on economics he presents really the first clear and systematic treatment on the sub ject and his is admitted to have been of great influence. He.published 'A Discourse of Trade, from England into the East Indies.' in 1621, and hisgreatest work, 'England's Treasure by 664.
Foreign Trade,' was published posthumously in 1