gangrene

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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

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

At the time, there were more cases of pneumonia, typhus, and gangrene among button factory laborers than in any other industry.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell