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Red Murrain or Blackbain or Rag-Picker's Disease or Rag Sorter’s Disease or Woolsorter's Disease or Splenic Fever or Pruna or Malignant Edema or Charbon or Carbo or Blood Striking or Bloody Murrain or Malignant Pustule or Black Erysipelas; A hard and circumscribed inflammatory tubercle like a boil, which sometimes forms on the cheek, neck, or back, and in a few days becomes highly gangrenous It then discharges an extremely fetid sanies from under the black core, which like a burning coal, continues destroying the surrounding parts It is supposed to arise from a peculiar miasma, is most common in warm climates, and often attends the plague

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