gangrene
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To really investigate gangrene, he would need to go where infection was far more plentiful; not the battlefield, but the hospital.
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
Her lower legs were amputated after she developed gangrene at age 7.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
The medics were worried: "Do Merve's feet have gangrene? Or is this the first symptom of hypothermia?"
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2023
“He’s got the gangrene in his feet,” Sonny said, pointing to Day’s toes, which were several shades darker than the rest of him and covered with open sores.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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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
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
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
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 E. M. Ashe
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
One man came limping in, unassisted, on a gangrened leg teeming with worms.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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This to the Virginians was like passing a rasp over a gangrened place; it was probing a wound that was incurable, or one which had not yet been healed.
From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas) Wilson
The King at Versailles was busied with the saving of his soul and with the doctoring of his gangrened knee.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
The doctors tell me that many slight wounds have gangrened owing to the cold.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere
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
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