gangrene

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

He was sent home with antibiotics but readmitted on the 26 May and diagnosed with gangrene.

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

Ulcers, glaucoma, gastritis, gangrene, cancer, broken limbs, malnutrition, and a host of infectious diseases—almost everything came through the doors of Zanmi Lasante.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Says C�line: "Mumblers and cowards." or hypocrites who are content to remain "flashy gangrenes, vested in elegant, bloody brocades," need not read his books.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

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 Wilson, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas)

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 Seiss, Joseph A.

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 Bird, Robert Montgomery

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

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

From To-morrow? by Cross, Victoria