[Sobre fasciite necrosante]: A perna estava monstruosamente inchada, a pele esticada sem uma única ruga, preenchendo toda a ampla perna da calça. Até o quadril, a pele adquirira uma tonalidade violeta-escura e brilhante, coberta de manchas aveludadas ao toque. Manchas semelhantes, porém mais claras, haviam surgido em seu ventre moreno e profundamente encovado. Um fedor pútrido e nauseante emanava do sangue marrom ressecado em suas calças...
Original: [On necrotizing fasciitis]: [His] leg was monstrously swollen, the skin was stretched tightly without a single wrinkle, and it filled all his ample trouser leg. Right up to his hip the skin had gone a shiny dark-violet hue and was covered with spots velvety to the touch. Similar spots, only of a lighter tinge, had made their appearance on his swarthy, deeply sunken belly. A foul, putrescent stench came from the brown blood dried on his trousers...
Fonte: A Companion to Aphorisms & Quotations for the Surgeon — Infecção
Mikhail Sholokhov