Talk:Blain (distemper)
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If a chilblain is a blister caused by a chill, then maybe this 'blain' is also a blister? It makes me think of the story in one of the James Herriot books, where he had to lance an abscess at the back of a cow's throat that was threatening to cut off its airway. In the book he stated that at the time it happened (the 1930s), they didn't know what caused these frequent abscesses in cattle, but modern (post-antibiotics) medicine decreed that they were probably caused by tuburculosis. He concluded by saying (IIRC) that this malady is almost never seen nowadays.--Anchoress 02:13, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
