Within 48-hours the wound became gangrenous and, on 5 November 1935, Afawarq collapsed and died.
The story goes that he had developed a gangrenous toe and was in fear of it spreading and causing his death.
This results from vasoconstriction of the blood vessels especially in the extremities, and causes a gangrenous condition.
The story goes that he had developed a gangrenous toe and was in fear of it spreading and would result in his death.
The festering of an open or healing wound, causing the discharge of a yellowish pussy liquid, sometimes accompanied by a strong smell.
Having attended first Summer Fields and then Eton (as a King's Scholar), Mackenzie was commissioned into the Scots Guards and was badly wounded at the very end of the First World War, undergoing a series of amputations of his leg in an ultimately successful battle against gangrene.
Larry has appeared in several movies as both himself and Dr. Gangrene, including the 2006 horror host documentary American Scary.
Near the end of his life, Rogers was suffering from Mercury poisoning, a common affliction resulting from the use of mercury to extract gold from low-grade ore, and parts of his feet had been amputated, presumably from mercury-induced gangrene.
Local anesthetics with vasoconstrictors should not be used in the nose, fingers, toes and penis, because the arteries here are end arteries, so the vasoconstrictor effect could cause ischemia and even gangrene of the affected part.
Stekel committed suicide in London by taking an overdose of Aspirin "to end the pain of his prostate and the diabetic gangrene".