blain

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"Used external only," it was for "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, frost bites, chill blains, bruises, and sore throat."

From Time Magazine Archive

If this were its meaning, the irony was keen, when at the same action a feverish inflammation breaking out in blains spread over all the nation.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.

Did two handfuls of ashes literally become the blains upon the bodies of all the Egyptians?

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.

These great physicians of the blind, The lame, and fatal blains of Inde In every drop themselves now see Speckled with a new leprosie.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

Itches, blains, Sow all the Athenian bosoms, and their crop Be general leprosy!

From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William