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
Time is supposed to heal all things, but time opened an emotional gangrene in Jerry.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
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 Franklin Bache
But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.
From Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope
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
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
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
The ulcer that ravaged Sylla, gangrened a throne, and decomposed a world.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
There frequently occurs, just a Moment before he expires, an abundant Discharge of excessively fœtid Matter by Stool; and during this Evacuation he dies with his Intestines quite gangrened, or mortified.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
A nearer glance shows the house-walls stained and gangrened with rot and mildew, the river-floods often shaking hands with the rains in the ground-floors.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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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