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Erysipelas

noun
1.
An acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes.





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"Erysipelas" Quotes from Famous Books



... ERYSIPELAS.—Dissolve five ounces of salt in one pint of good brandy and take two tablespoonfuls three ...
— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs
... "I never had a case like yours. I never had a patient who was run away with, and kicked on the head, and drownded. So I says to Tip, I says, 'I'll do everything. I'll treat for asthmy, erysipelas and pneumony, rheumatism and snake-bite, for ...
— The Soldier of the Valley • Nelson Lloyd
... to Dresden, my carriage broke down: my life was endangered; and my son received a contusion in the arm. The erysipelas broke out on him at Berlin, and I could not present him to the King for ...
— The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck - Vol. 2 (of 2) • Baron Trenck
... innocent as a babe. Mr. Davis was suffering from erysipelas, and I kept him in my house that night to relieve his pain. It will all blow over. I'm happy now that I have seen you. Ben will be up in a few days. You must return at once. You have no idea of the wild chaos at home. I left Jake in charge. I have implicit ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon
... there saw my bookseller's moher, but get no ground there yet; and here saw Mrs. Michell's daughter married newly to a bookseller, and she proves a comely little grave woman. So to visit my Lord Crew, who is very sick, to great danger, by an irisipulus;—[Erysipelas.]—the first day I heard of it, and so home, and took occasion to buy a rest for my espinette at the ironmonger's by Holborn Conduit, where the fair pretty woman is that I have lately observed there, and she is pretty, and je credo vain enough. Thence home and ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... in for a touch of erysipelas. They kept her at the Infirmary to-day. If they'd left her at large she'd ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray


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