Editing Erysipelas (section)

== Notable cases ==
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''Fatal, in order of death''
* [[Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus]], (d. 1557), Scottish nobleman active in the reigns of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots
* [[John of the Cross]], Spanish saint and priest (d. 1591)
* [[Marin Mersenne]], French theologian, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1648): In one of his letters, R. Descartes writes to Mersenne that he wants to find some cure for his erysipelas.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Descartes |first1=René |title=The philosophical writings of Descartes |date=1984–1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] |isbn=0521403235 |page=21}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Throckmorton]] (d.1668) Prioress<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Throckmorton, Margaret [name in religion Magdalen] (1591–1668), prioress of St Monica's, Louvain|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-106107|access-date=2021-01-31|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/106107|isbn = 9780198614111}}</ref>
* [[Michiel de Ruyter]], Dutch admiral in the Anglo-Dutch wars, contracted it from injuries sustained from a cannonball (d. 1676).
* [[Christina, Queen of Sweden]] (d. 1689)
* [[Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt|Norborne Berkeley, baron de Botetourt]], Royal Governor of Virginia (d. 1770)<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Berkeley_Norborne_baron_de_Botetourt_1717-1770#start_entry | title=Berkeley, Norborne, baron de Botetourt (1717–1770)}}</ref>
* [[Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom]], daughter of George III of the United Kingdom (1783–1810)
* [[Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia]], daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia and wife of King William I of Württemberg (d. 1819)
* [[Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet]], British art patron and amateur painter (d. 1827)<ref>Margaret Greaves, ''Regency Patron: Sir George Beaumont'' (London, UK: Methuen & Co, 1966), p. 154. [https://archive.org/details/regencypatronsir0000grea/page/n11/mode/2up Also available at Internet Archive].</ref>
* [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt]], [[United States Attorney General]] and [[1832 United States presidential election#Anti-Masonic Party|U.S. presidential candidate]] (d. 1834)
* [[Charles Lamb]], English writer and essayist (d. 1834)
* [[Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex]] sixth son and ninth child of [[King George III]] (d. 1843)
* [[Barbara Hofland]], English children's writer and novelist (d. 1844)<ref>Dennis Butts, "Hofland, Barbara (bap. 1770, d. 1844)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13457 Retrieved 20 December 2015, pay-walled].</ref>
* [[Pope Gregory XVI]] (d. 1846)
* [[Mary Lyon]], American women's education pioneer (d. 1849)<ref name=Alden>{{cite book|last=Green|first=Elizabeth Alden|title=Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke|url=https://archive.org/details/marylyonmounthol0000gree|url-access=registration|year=1979|publisher=University Press of New England|location=Hanover, New Hampshire|isbn=978-0-87451-172-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/marylyonmounthol0000gree/page/310 310]}}</ref>
* [[Duchess Marie of Württemberg|Marie, Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]] (d. 1860)
* [[John Herbert White]], youngest son of [[James Springer White|James S.]] and [[Ellen G. White]], co-founders of the Seventh-day Adventist church (d. 1860)
* [[Ralph Bullock (jockey)|Ralph Bullock]], English jockey (d. 1863)
* [[Frederick VII of Denmark]], king of Denmark (d. 1863)<ref name="Møller">{{cite book|last=Møller|first=Jan|title=Frederik 7. En kongeskæbne|year=1994|publisher=Aschehoug Dansk Forlag|location=Copenhagen|isbn=978-87-11-22878-4|page=235}}</ref>
* [[John Timon]], First Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, New York, United States (d. 1867)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://buffalonews.com/2017/04/14/viewpoints-remembering-buffalos-first-catholic-bishop-john-timon-great-good-man/|title=Viewpoints: Remembering Buffalo's first Catholic bishop, John Timon, 'a great and good man'|last=Castillo|first=Dennis|date=14 April 2017|website=The Buffalo News|access-date=2017-04-17}}</ref>
* [[Nehemiah Bushnell]], American attorney, railroad president, and politician (d. 1873)
* [[John Stuart Mill]], English political philosopher (d. 1873)<ref name="isbn0-521-62024-4">{{cite book|author=Capaldi, Nicholas |title=John Stuart Mill: a biography |url=https://archive.org/details/johnstuartmillbi00capa |url-access=limited |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=2004|pages=[https://archive.org/details/johnstuartmillbi00capa/page/n376 356] |isbn=978-0-521-62024-6 }}</ref>
* [[Marcus Clarke]] (1846–1881), Australian journalist, poet, playwright and novelist, who wrote "For the Term of His Natural Life", died age 35.<ref>{{cite web|title=Marcus Clarke|date=31 July 2011 |publisher=Australian Variety Theatre Archive |url=http://ozvta.com/practitioners-other-a-l/}}</ref>
* [[John Brown (servant)|John Brown]], Scottish personal servant and companion to Queen Victoria (d. 1883)<ref name="isbn=978-1400062553">{{cite book|author=Ridley, Jane |title=The Heir Apparent: a life of Edward VII, the Crown Prince |publisher=Penguin Random House LLC |location=New York, NY |year=2013|page=287}}</ref>
* [[Mihai Eminescu]], Romanian poet, novelist, journalist (d. 1889)
* [[Patrick Killen (boxer)|Pat Killen]], American heavyweight boxer, died at age 29 while in hiding in Chicago from police after assaulting two men (d. 1891),
* [[Samuel Augustus Ward]], American organist, composer, teacher, businessman (d. 1903)<ref>America the Beautiful by Lynn Sherr</ref>
* [[Johann Most]], German-American anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and orator (d. 1906)
* [[James Anthony Bailey]], American circus ringmaster (d. 1906)<ref>Macy, Beth. Truevine. Little, Brown & Co, New York, 2016, page 151.</ref>
* [[Yūjirō Motora]], Prominent Japanese experimental psychologist (d. 1912)
* [[George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon]] (d. 1923), English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings<ref>Cox, A. M. [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(03)13576-3/fulltext?code=lancet-site "The death of Lord Carnarvon"]; ''[[The Lancet]]''; 7 June 2003.</ref>
* [[Miller Huggins]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)<ref name="Trachtenberg1995">{{cite book|last=Trachtenberg|first=Leo |title=The Wonder Team: The True Story of the Incomparable 1927 New York Yankees|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6phOhlHUH8kC&pg=PA151|year=1995|publisher=Bowling Green State University Popular Press|isbn=0-87972-677-6|page=151}}</ref>
* [[Solanus Casey|Father Solanus Casey]], American Capuchin priest declared "[[Beatification|blessed]]" by the [[Roman Catholic Church]] (d. 1957)<ref>Wollenweber, Brother Leo (2002). "Meet Solanus Casey". St. Anthony Messenger Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, page 107, {{ISBN|1-56955-281-9}},</ref>

''Chronic, recurrent''
* [[Richard Wagner]], opera composer, was prone to outbreaks of erysipelas throughout his adult life. He suffered notably from attacks throughout 1855, when he was 42.

''Acute''
* [[Jair Bolsonaro]], president of Brazil between 2019 and 2022, currently{{when?|date=December 2022}} suffers from erysipelas.

''Recovered''
* [[Lenin]] developed an infection in London, and party leadership was exercised by [[Julius Martov|Martov]] until he recovered.<ref>Rice, Christopher (1990). ''Lenin: Portrait of a Professional Revolutionary''. London: Cassell. {{ISBN|978-0304318148}}. pp. 77–78.</ref><ref>Service, Robert (2000). ''Lenin: A Biography''. London: Macmillan. {{ISBN|9780333726259}}. p. 150.</ref><ref>Rappaport, Helen (2010). ''Conspirator: Lenin in Exile''. New York: Basic Books. {{ISBN|978-0-465-01395-1}} pp. 85–87.</ref>
* [[Ernest Hemingway]] developed an infection near his left eye after being hit with an oar. He was treated at the Casa di Cura Morgagni in [[Padua]].<ref>Hemingway, Mary Welsh (1976). ''How It Was''. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. {{ISBN|0-297-77265-1}}. p. 236.</ref>

''Fictional''
* In [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s novel ''[[Sons and Lovers]]'', one of the major characters in the novel, William Morel, dies quickly from the complications of erysipelas in conjunction with pneumonia.
*In [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s 1924 [[short story]], "[[The Adventure of the Illustrious Client]]", [[Sherlock Holmes]] is reported to have developed erysipelas following an assault that resulted in head injuries requiring stitches.
* In [[Anton Chekhov]]'s 1892 short story "[[Ward No. 6]]", erysipelas is among the conditions suffered by the patients committed to a poorly run mental-illness facility in a small town in [[Tsarist autocracy|tsarist]] Russia.
* In [[J. G. Farrell]]'s novel ''[[The Siege of Krishnapur]]'', the Collector, Mr. Hopkins, is affected during the siege and recovers.
* [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[Roughing It]]'' mentions the disease due to the rarefied atmosphere (chapter 43).
* In [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s ''[[The Thin Man]]'', the name is used for a pun on the word "ear" (chapter 22).
* In [[Willa Cather]]'s ''[[One of Ours]]'', the main character, Claude, contracts the disease in "the queerest" way, after being dragged into wire by mules, and the next day continuing to work in the dust. The disease plays a key role in the novel, persuading him to marry Enid after she cares for him in recovery (Book II, Chapter IV, p. 138).
* In season one, episode four of ''[[Downton Abbey]]'', Isobel Crawley misdiagnoses her butler, Molesley, with erysipelas when he develops a rash on his hands. The Dowager Countess of Grantham correctly identifies the rash as an allergy to [[rue]].}}
* In [[Rodrigo Souza Leão]]'s autobiographical novel ''All Dogs are Blue'', he says that his erysipelas is cured by the antibiotic Benzetacil ([[benzathine benzylpenicillin]]).<ref>Souza Leão, Rodrigo (2013). ''All Dogs are Blue''. High Wycombe: And Other Stories. {{ISBN|978-1-908-27620-9}}. p. 49.</ref>