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Whoever knows what changes occur in an element of the body separated from the rest , and kept macerating at temperatures of F . 60° – 100° , can predict what changes the same element would undergo if gangrenized in connection with the body.
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And that resulted, as we know, in frightful stomatitis which gangrenized the gums, which disturbed, lay bare the teeth and often made them fall out, which sometimes extended to their base, to necrosis of parts of the maxillas, and which in all cases imposed on the unfortunate patients a long and horrible suffering.
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Yet several times after he seemed to be near success, "upon a sodaine ... his sores did putrifye and breake foorth again ... so that I feared his Vlcers would gangrenize." After over a year both surgeon and patient wearied and gave up.
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Perhaps the worst imbecility of the Junkers was their policy towards gangrenized Russia .
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