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
The medics were worried: "Do Merve's feet have gangrene? Or is this the first symptom of hypothermia?"
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2023
They call it "sepsis," and they know from bitter experience how quickly a "septic" wound can go from slight redness to gross swelling to a fatal condition called gangrene.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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
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 Bache, Franklin
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
But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.
From Dr. Wortle's School by Trollope, Anthony
The 'mind,' somehow, causes gangrenes, if not cancers, paralysis, shrinking of tissues; the mind, somehow, cures them.
From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew
One man came limping in, unassisted, on a gangrened leg teeming with worms.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Were half my body gangrened, I would not smite nor reproach it, but seek with patience an available remedy.
From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward
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 Marvin, Frederic Rowland
Yass'm, I walked from Buford's, an' 't was awful hard to do, cause my foot is all sore an' gangrened.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
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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