His arrival at the ship after forty-eight hours absence, with no signs offrostbiteor any other problem was a huge relief.
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Frostbiteand severe exposure were not uncommon.
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They are threatened withfrostbite, pneumonia and hypothermia.
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I take the other case, that offrostbite.
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Many of them suffered fromfrostbite, in addition to what befell them in attacks by the enemy.
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Is it a point of time when men are exposed for weeks in an open boat, suffering fromfrostbiteand incurring permanent physical disability?
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I would compare those two evils to a burn and afrostbite.
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One child had been pushed out into the cold so often that he suffered severefrostbitein his feet.
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Thousands spent months, and many of them spent years, in open trenches; they lived in the open; and they sufferedfrostbite, trench-fever and illnesses of all descriptions.
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Is he also aware that, according to my information, soldiers in this regiment have suffered very heavy casualties owing tofrostbiteand pneumonia because of the non-arrival of winter clothing?
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Lorry drivers suffered fromfrostbitebecause the management would not give them gloves.
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Fifty-three deaths from cold or exposure were reported, and 799 persons were admitted to hospital suffering fromfrostbite, or from other maladies to which exposure had been a contributing factor.
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Because of its low temperature liquid nitrogen can be extremely damaging to body tissue, causingfrostbiteand cryogenic burning on contact.
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Socks routinely froze to feet and had to be cut off to fightfrostbite.
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With four dogs they trekked southward, increasingly afflicted byfrostbite, snow blindness and, eventually, scurvy.
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