Gangrene

Gangrene means the death of tissues due to lack of blood supply. Gas gangrene is caused when oxygen-starved tissues become infected with a bacterium called Colostridum perfringens, which produces gas under the skin as a byproduct of its metabolism. In the First World War, gas gangrene was so rife that a war injury such as an open fracture of the thigh had an 80 percent death rate.

1. Sepsis
2. Fluid retention
3. Anoxemia

1. Pulp necrosis
2. Noma
3. Immersion foot
4. Fournier's gangrene

1. Non-combat death of soldiers
2. Absence of limb

1. Vascular disease
2. Typhoid fever
3. Necrotising arachnidism
4. Measles
5. Malpractice in plastic surgery
6. Diabetes
7. Arteriosclerosis

1. Diseases of the blood circulation system
2. Boils

1. Malignancy
2. Infection