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erysipelas

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erysipelas

In medicine, an acute disease of the skin due to infection by a streptococcus bacterium. Starting at some point where the skin is broken (usually on the face or scalp) or injured, the infection spreads, producing a swollen red patch with small blisters and generalized fever. The condition is now rare.
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Danger of another attack of erysipelas --a worse attack--in the head.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
Powderell, who in his constant charity of interpretation was inclined to esteem Lydgate the more for what seemed a conscientious pursuit of a better plan, had his mind disturbed with doubts during his wife's attack of erysipelas, and could not abstain from mentioning to Lydgate that Mr.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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