Without one's being warned by any severe pain frostbite arises, which, if it be not in time thawed by rubbing the injured part with the hand, or with melting snow, may readily become very serious.
A quick road to Blighty, which Tommy used very often until frostbite became a court-martial offence.
Gross says: “The treatment of frostbite requires no little judgment and adroitness to conduct it to a successful issue.
Frostbite is the result of exposure to cold, and in certain regions during the winter months a considerable number are liable to this accident.
A halt had been ordered for the following day, to give the men suffering from snow blindness and frostbite a chance to recover, so we turned in with the blissful consciousness of not having to turn out at dawn, and slept like the dead.
Considering all things, we were fairly free of frostbite in the Scott expedition, and there is no doubt that Atkinson's accident served as an example to all of us to "ca' canny.
The winter passed in dismal hardship, and even when the rare spells of fine weather occurred the party dare not venture far afield in their meagre, oil-saturated clothing--severe frostbite would have spelt disaster.
Frostbite presents naturally every degree of severity from the mere chilling of the tip of the ear to positive freezing and death of a portion.
It is not uncommon among young cattle which are poorly nourished and exposed outdoors to storms and extreme cold to suffer frostbite of the ear, which may constitute actual freezing of the part.
Their faces were scarred and wrinkled, their eyes dull, their hands whitened and creased with the constant exposure to damp and cold, yet the scars of frostbite were very few and this evil had never seriously assailed them.
Atkinson is suffering a good deal from his hand: the frostbite was deeper than I thought; fortunately he can now feel all his fingers, though it was twenty-four hours before sensation returned to one of them.
Some eighty-below-zero air hit my nose, and that's when I got this pleasant little frostbite to add to the bump I acquired during the crash of my rocket.
I'd already had a nasty bump and a mean frostbite on that nose.
Some typical cases of frostbite were grotesque in their ghastliness.
Cases offrostbite became very numerous, and many a time I had to lop off a man's feet or hands the flesh of which was simply rotting on the bones.
Pyaemia andfrostbite were the other chief causes of mortality.
