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HAMILTON, Robert (1721 – 1793)

1721 – 1793

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1790 CE

#5523

An account of a distemper, by the common people in England vulgarly called the mumps.

First modern account of the occurrence of parotitis and orchitis complicating it. Hamilton’s paper, read in 1773, by its fullness and clarity made the disease more generally known, so that within a few years man…