bed-sore

After the partition of India, Kashmir found itself trapped inbetween the two new nations, rubbing like a bed-sore.

Johann Hari: How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie 2009

A large trophic sacral bed-sore steadily increased in depth and size.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

Meanwhile the patient suffered with severe fever, accompanied by frequent rigors and profuse sweats; the bed-sore continued to extend, and the urine was foul and contained pus.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

The patient emaciated rapidly, and for the last fourteen days the temperature ranged to 104°, the bed-sore steadily increasing in size.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

The land lay yellow as the skin of a fever patient, except in rare spots where the melancholy corn struggled heartlessly up a hillside, making a blotch like a bed-sore.

The Last Thunder Song 1904

Oliver Appleton, the first reported American bleeder, died at an advanced age, owing to hemorrhage from a bed-sore and from the urethra.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Oliver Appleton, the first reported American bleeder, died at an advanced age, owing to hemorrhage from a bed-sore and from the urethra.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

“There’s a sight for bed-sore eyes,” I said, and started to grin.

Mary, Mary Patterson, James, 1947- 2005

a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

"I confess," said Berry, "that the idea of having a few chairs about in which you can sit continuously for ten minutes, not so much in comfort as without fear of contracting a bed-sore or necrosis of the coccyx, appeals to me.

Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922