Blain was an animal disease of unknown cause that was well known in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is unclear whether the disease is still extant or which modern disease it corresponds to.
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Partially Attested
Body SystemSource describes onset as inflammation of the mouth, tongue, oesophagus and intestines, all digestive tract organs, but states the disease then extends through the whole system Classification
ICD-10 ChapterXVIII: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings, Not Elsewhere Classified 1 Causative Agent
Causative Agent (category)Idiopathic / Multifactorial 2 Disputed
Communicable or Non-communicable Sources
1. Wikipedia: ICD-10
WikipediaList of chapters, Chapter XVIIIQuote, List of chapters, Chapter XVIII
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
2. Wikipedia: Blain (animal disease)
Lead section, first sentence
Blain was an animal disease of unknown etiology that was well known in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Body text, quoting the Belfast News-Letter, 13 September 1852
though it always exhibits itself in inflammation of the membranes of the mouth, beneath or above the tongue, and the sides of the tongue itself, it soon extends through the whole system, and, according to the best veterinarians, involves inflammation and gangrene of the oesophagus and intestines.
Body text, modern scholarship paragraph
Modern scholarship suggests that "gloss-anthrax" was not the same disease as modern-day anthrax, but instead could have been foot-and-mouth disease, or a viral infection with a secondary Fusobacterium necrophorum infection.
Lead section, second sentence
It is unclear whether it is still extant, or what modern disease it corresponds to.
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