The story goes that he had developed a gangrenous toe and was in fear of it spreading and causing his death.

To her surgeon's disbelief, her pain ceased, she started walking, and three "irreversibly" gangrenous toes spontaneously sloughed.

I loved it like a diabetic loves that last, choc-dipped fudge brownie that sends him hurtling towards surgery for the emergency amputation of his gangrenous toes.

On September 19, the garrison surrendered, in the Baquijano Capitulation, only two days after de la Mar finally submitted his left foot to amputation, having initially refused treatment of a gangrenous toe.

Images include gangrenous toes (pictured), rotting teeth and gums, diseased lungs and smoking-damaged hearts.

Cautiously, I touched the gangrenous toe, eyes on his face.

A Boston Globe article stated, "In a business where violent death is often inevitable, Patriarca died relatively peacefully, unable to outwit failing health caused by a heart condition and diabetes that led to amputation of a gangrenous toe."

This Discovery Channel documentary, which will be shown in six weekly installments, beginning tonight, is rife with peeling noses; scabrous, wind-reddened flesh; and purple, gangrenous toes.

I happened to know Jonathan McManus, whose gangrenous toes I had removed the winter before.

Doctors amputated a gangrenous toe on his right foot in 1994, and in a matter of months, Mr. Weiss lost the entire leg and last year, the toes on his left foot.