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Blain

An inflammatory swelling or sore a bulla pustule or blister...


Chilblain

A blain sore or inflammatory swelling of the feet or hands produced by exposure to cold and attended by itching pain and sometimes ulceration...


Bread

Bread. The Acts (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Bread') relating to the sale of bread are the London Bread Act, 1822 (3 Geo. 4, c. cvi.) (metropolis), now repealed; and the Bread Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 37), which, by s. 4 (as to which see Cox v. Blaines, (1902) 1 KB 670, explained in Mattinson v. Binley, (1908) 2 KB 534), prescribes that bread, 'except French, or fancy bread (as to which see Bailey v. Barsby, (1909) 2 KB 610) or rolls,' must be sold by weightm etc.; but the Weights and Measures Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 21), s. 32, makes a request by the purchaser an essence of the offence of refusal to weigh in the case of bread carried out in a cart, See Evans v. Jones, (1909) 99 LT 799; Lyons & Co. v. Houghton, (1915) 1 KB 489.S. 8 of the Act of 1836 enacts that the names, addresses and offences of bakers and others convicted of adulterating bread may be directed by the convicting justices to be published in some newspaper. S. 14 prohibits Sunday baking, and the consents for pro...


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