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“Gangrene that carried foul and fulsome taint, spreading infection through the neighb’ouring air: No cunning Leach aboard our navy went, much less a subtle Chirurgeon was there; but some whose knowledge of the craft was faint strove as they could the poisoned part to pare, as though ’twere dead; and here they did aright;— all were Death’s victims who had caught the blight.