When the brain is attacked with sphacelus, the patients die in three days; or if they escape these, they recover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

And cases of sphacelus connected with this cause, in addition to other inconveniences, are attended with great danger to the whole body.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Fractures] Reference

But in cases of contusion, tubercles form, along with cough, suppurating sores, and sphacelus of the ribs, for nerves from all the parts run along each rib.    From Wordnik.com.  [Instruments Of Reduction] Reference

Sometimes, in addition to the sphacelus, there come on acute fevers accompanied with hiccup, aberration of intellect, and speedy death, with lividities of the large blood-vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

Sometimes, in addition to the sphacelus, very acute fevers supervene, attended with hiccup, tumors, aberration of intellect, and speedy death, along with lividity of the large bloodvessels, and gangrene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Instruments Of Reduction] Reference

If there be no inflammation during the first days, the jaw is consolidated in twenty days; for callus quickly forms in this, as in all the other porous bones, provided there be no sphacelus (exfoliation?).    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

But if the summer is parched and northerly, but the autumn rainy and southerly, headache and sphacelus of the brain are likely to occur; and in addition hoarseness, coryza, coughs, and in some cases, consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Airs, Waters, And Places] Reference

For they are apt to be attended with very acute fevers, of the continual type, accompanied with tremblings, hiccup, aberration of intellect, and which prove fatal within a few days: and there may be lividities of bloody veins, with nausea, and gangrene from pressure; these diseases may occur, besides the sphacelus.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Fractures] Reference

But although men would give a great price to escape being deformed, yet at the same time they do not know how to take care, nor have resolution, if they do not experience pain, nor fear death, although the formation of callus in the nose speedily place, for the most part is consolidated in ten days, provided sphacelus do not take place.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

When persons jumping from a height pitch on the heel, so as to occasion separation (diastasis) of the bones, ecchymosis of the veins, and contusion of the nerves; when these symptoms are very violent there is danger of sphacelus, and that the case may give trouble during life, for the bones are so constructed as to slip from one another, and the nerves communicate together.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

Among these we may reckon suppuration and gangrene, sphacelus, and some others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference

The feet and legs are particularly liable to this erysipelas, which precedes or attends the sphacelus or mortification of those parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

This fever is frequently accompanied with topical inflammation, which is liable, if the arterial strength is not supported, to end in sphacelus; and as mortified parts, such as sloughs of the throat, if they adhere to living parts, soon become putrid from the warmth and moisture of their situation; these fevers have been termed putrid, and have been thought to owe their cause to what is only their consequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Upon sphacelus exfoliation of the bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

A serious wound has occurred in the leg and it is long of healing, and is connected with the heel, or when the same thing happens in the thigh, or when in any disease a protracted decubitus takes place on the back, in all such cases the sores are inveterate, troublesome, and frequently break out again, unless particular attention be paid to the cure, along with much rest, as in all the cases attended with sphacelus.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Fractures] Reference

Many of these, therefore, are troubled with coughs, tubercles, empyema, external suppurations, and sphacelus of the ribs.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

In sphacelus of the ribs, tents are to be tried, all other particulars will be stated afterward: but they should be learned by sight rather than by words, namely, food, drink, heat, cold, attitude; medicines, dry, liquid, red, dark, white, sour, for the ulcers, and so with regard to the diet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Instruments Of Reduction] Reference

In like manner, when the ribs are fractured, whether one or more, provided there be no splinters, there is rarely fever, spitting of blood, and sphacelus, and ordinary treatment without evacuation will suffice, provided there be no fever; - bandaging, according to rule; and the callus forms in twenty days, the bone being of a porous nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Instruments Of Reduction] Reference

It is not everybody who can apply the bandage properly in such cases; for if one shall bind the parts, as in other accidents about the ankle, sometimes bringing a fold round the foot and sometimes round the tendon, these turns leave out the heel, which is the seat of the contusion, and thus there is danger that the os calcis may sphacelate; and if this should take place, the impediment may endure for life and also in all the other cases of sphacelus, not proceeding from such a cause as this; as when, from being carelessly allowed to lie in a certain position during confinement to bed, the heel becomes black, or when.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Fractures] Reference