gangrene

He learned to patch up injured men in below-deck sea cabins, where gangrene turned a wound black and rotten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Nursing employees told the investigators that the 69-year-old man, who had been admitted with gangrene on his feet, was often confused and sometimes tried to pull out his tubes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

By World War II, even as scientists were manufacturing gallons of phages to combat cholera, dysentery, and gangrene in Stalingrad and Leningrad, much the West had given up on phages.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

Her lower legs were amputated after she developed gangrene at age 7.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

Time is supposed to heal all things, but time opened an emotional gangrene in Jerry.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Fabricius takes the occasion to give a caution to young surgeons, to avoid being too sanguine in predicting recovery from gangrenes.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

Crutches, and itches, and leprosies, and ulcers, and gangrenes, and running sores, praise ye the Lord, for to-night ye have saved our Archbishop! 1ST BEGGAR.

From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

Simple ulcerations and small gangrenes, as well as the troublesome excoriation, when not in the last stage, yielded promptly to this remedy; the good effect being generally visible from the first application.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

The swellings of the tonsils are sensible to the eye and touch externally, and have an elastic rather than an œdematous feel, like parts in the vicinity of gangrenes.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

For fungous flesh, it promotes discharge, and destroys both gangrenes and carbuncles.

From The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses by Robert Charles Hope

One man came limping in, unassisted, on a gangrened leg teeming with worms.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

The roadside beggar's exhibition of his sores and gangrened mutilations is something more than a device to extort alms from the passer-by.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

A nearer glance shows the house-walls stained and gangrened with rot and mildew, the river-floods often shaking hands with the rains in the ground-floors.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, was given by the treacherous Maenon a poisoned toothpick which soon rendered his mouth incurably gangrened, and deprived him of the power of speech.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Frederic Rowland Marvin

The doctor knew not to what he could ascribe my inability to rise, till, hearing me complaining of my leg, he examined it, and found that my foot was gangrened.

From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford

It drags upon me like a prisoner's gangrening fetter, and I'm getting tired of it.

From To-morrow? by Victoria Cross