bloodpoisoning

He was confined for a long time in a damp and noisome cell, where he contracted bloodpoisoning in one leg, which it became necessary to amputate.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

He was bitten by a fly, and died of bloodpoisoning on a French hospital ship, the day being Shakespeare's, the twenty-third of April, 1915.

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904

Do you think I will go off and leave you to die here under the counter of bloodpoisoning, like a dog that has eaten a loaded sausage?

Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys 1878

She didn't tell him, but made various preparations and then told him she had heard that if there was danger of bloodpoisoning it would show if the finger was placed on wood and the patient looked toward the sun.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader 1847