Blain (animal disease)
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blain-animal-disease-304-17594717
title:
Blain (animal disease)
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Blain was an animal disease of unknown etiology that was well known in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is unclear whether it is still extant, or what modern disease it corresponds to. According to Ephraim Chambers' 18th-century Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, blain was "a distemper" occurring in animals, consisting of a "Bladder growing on the Root of the Tongue against the Wind-Pipe", which "at length swelling, stops the Wind". It was thought to occur "by great cha
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Animal disease of unknown cause
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blain_(animal_disease)
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2022-08-16T13:37:59Z
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