An acute infection of the skin caused by species of STREPTOCOCCUS. This disease most frequently affects infants, young children, and the elderly. Characteristics include pink-to-red lesions that spread rapidly and are warm to the touch. The commonest site of involvement is the face.
    

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Cosedal, terapeutica de la tos por el bromuro de codeina : Midasul tabletas de sulfanilamida ... / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.

A Scottish sheriff, advertising Sherriffs ointment for skin diseases. Colour lithograph.

Have handy Sherriffs Ointment : the great cure for eczema, erysipelas, herpes, nettlerash, itch, bad legs, old sores, cuts. It is healing, soothing and antiseptic / Alexander Sherriffs.

Erysipelas

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De erysipelate neonatorum : dissertatio inauguralis medica ... / auctor Samuel Rosenthal.

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

Cullen's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine

Practical observations on diphtheria and erysipelas / by Charles Bell.

Cases of erysipelas successfully treated, chiefly by venesection / by Andrew Duncan.