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Billingsgate1676
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tongue-plague1853
1853 G. JohnstonTerra Lindisfarnensis I. 100G. aparine... Children, with the leaves, practise phlebotomy upon the tongue..hence they call the plant Bluid-tongue or Tongue-bluiders.