What is (a) An old name for erysipelas. (b) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin called?
wildfire — (Med.) (a) An old name for erysipelas. (b) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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