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
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
It's a progressive disease that can cause chest pain, leg pain or numbness; gangrene is one of the resultant health effects.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2023
The doctor tells Mr. Hannon he has to go to the hospital or it’s a case of gangrene he’ll have and the doctor won’t be responsible.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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
But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.
From Dr. Wortle's School by Trollope, Anthony
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
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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 Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
If not already gangrened from long neglect, you may save the patient's life, and at all events, ease his suffering, and smooth his road to the grave.
From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Robinson, Solon
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 has an aspect like gangrened or scabrous flesh.
From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor
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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