gangrene
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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
On 28 June, the family were told Mr Trotter had a condition called Fournier's gangrene and nothing more could be done.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 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
Time is supposed to heal all things, but time opened an emotional gangrene in Jerry.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Rochefoucault, who has torn the veil from so many foul gangrenes of the human heart, says, we find something not altogether unpleasant to us in the misfortunes of our best friends.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Hope, Robert Charles
But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.
From Dr. Wortle's School by Trollope, Anthony
Oftener than not it gangrenes, and there is loss of sound tissue and the setting-up of strange and malevolent growth.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
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 Bache, Franklin
One man came limping in, unassisted, on a gangrened leg teeming with worms.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
It has an aspect like gangrened or scabrous flesh.
From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor
In the beginning of that month the daily deaths were five hundred, the living were not able to bury the dead, and a pest soon bred; the atmosphere was such that the slightest wound gangrened.
From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
If you'd seen her and lived with her as I have, year out and year in, you'd know her love of money has eat into her soul and gangrened it.
From Flamsted quarries by Nelson, G. Patrick
The omentum, to appearance gangrened, was dark, and altered in texture.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
It drags upon me like a prisoner's gangrening fetter, and I'm getting tired of it.
From To-morrow? by Cross, Victoria
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