gangrene
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He has consulted fellow Spaniard Santi Cazorla, who was sidelined for 636 days after gangrene ravaged his Achilles tendon, and takes inspiration from the former Arsenal midfielder's comeback.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
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
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
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But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.
From Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope
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
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
Crutches, and itches, and leprosies, and ulcers, and gangrenes, and running sores, praise ye the Lord, for to-night ye have saved our Archbishop! 1ST BEGGAR.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
One man came limping in, unassisted, on a gangrened leg teeming with worms.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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In the beginning of that month the daily deaths were five hundred, the living were not able to bury the dead, and a pest soon bred; the atmosphere was such that the slightest wound gangrened.
From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
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
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
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
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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