gangrene

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

The doctors of 1848 don't realize that gangrene is the end result of bacterial infection.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

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 Sir Walter Scott

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

The 'mind,' somehow, causes gangrenes, if not cancers, paralysis, shrinking of tissues; the mind, somehow, cures them.

From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang

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

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

No matter what it may once have been, no matter what service it may have rendered in helping Europe through the Dark Ages, it had become gangrened, perverted, rotten, offensive, unbearable.

From Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties by Joseph A. Seiss

Truly he blundered wrong about Lorenzo's arm, which is not yet well healed; and I vow to St. John, I thought, one time, it would have gangrened.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

Then in the midst of the discussion the King had a twinge in his gangrened knee, and signed Forstner's release, in order to be rid of this pertinacious princess.

From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay

The convention," said Robespierre, in his reply to the deputation, "in the situation in which it now stands, gangrened by corruption, and being wholly unable to recover itself, cannot save the republic-both must perish.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet

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

From To-morrow? by Victoria Cross