Others with Barry Malzberg's or others' accounts at hand (or
their more immediate memories) can answer more
authoritatively, but as I recall a small injury was simply
let go by the depressed, alchohol-abusing Woolrich, allowing
the leg to necrotize and gangrene to set in.
-----Original Message----- From: William Denton [mailto:
buff@pobox.com]
On 3 June 2001, David Schmid wrote:
: Woolrich was in the middle of slow but inexorable process
of decline,
: and the extent of that decline was vividly illustrated in
January,
: 1968 when, having failed to seek medical treatment for a
gangrenous
: leg, he had to have it amputated.
How did he catch gangrene?
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