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
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
Her lower legs were amputated after she developed gangrene at age 7.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
He recovered possession of himself before the tourniquet was finished and loosened it immediately to lessen the danger of gangrene.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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
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
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 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
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 '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
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.
The Frenchman, struggling with the English language, told a lady he was gangrened, he meant he was mortified.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
Here we see both what he calls his "gangrened sensibility" and a complete abandonment to the feelings of the moment.
From Poems of Coleridge by Symons, Arthur
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 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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