Abstract
FEW diseases illustrate the prophylactic benefit of current fluid-balance concepts as well as that of acute suppurative parotitis. As recently as ten years ago, suppurative parotitis occurred by and large as a complication either of an acute systemic infection or of the postoperative state1 — hence the name "surgical parotitis." That the infection for the most part arises from a retrograde invasion of the gland by oral bacteria has been supported by bacteriologic and other studies over the past fifty years,2 , 3 the most necessary prerequisite appearing to consist of dehydration and a reduced flow of saliva from the gland. It . . .
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