Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ER-Y-SIP'E-LAS, n. [Gr. ερυσιπελας.]

A disease called St. Anthony's fire; a diffused inflammation with fever of two or three days, generally with coma or delirium; an eruption of a fiery acrid humor, on some part of the body, but chiefly on the face. One species of erysipelas is called shingles, or eruption with small vesicles. Coxe. Encyc. Quincy.