- Blain (distemper)
Blain is a
distemper occurring in animals, consisting in a bladder growing on the root of thetongue against thewindpipe , which at length swelling, stops the breath. It was thought to occur by great chafing, and heating of the stomach.References
#1728 [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech000900240256&isize=L]
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