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Specialty. Medical toxicology. Milk sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting or, in animals, as trembles, is a kind of poisoning, characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain, that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison ...
- Nancy Hanks
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Milk sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting or, in animals, as trembles, is a kind of poisoning, characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain, that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol.
Summary. Milk sickness, usually called milksick by early nineteenth-century American pioneers, denotes what we now know to be poisoning by milk from cows that have eaten either the white snakeroot or the rayless goldenrod plants. The white snakeroot, common in the Midwest and upper South, is a member of the Compositae called Eupatorium ...
- Thomas Cone
- 1993
In DuBois County, the majority of recorded deaths in the early 1800s came from milk sickness. From 1809 to 1927, this strange disease killed thousands of settlers and farmers in the Midwest ...
Other articles where milk sickness is discussed: white snakeroot: … of affected cows may experience milk sickness, a condition that is marked by weakness, vomiting, and constipation and can be fatal. Milk sickness was responsible for the deaths of thousands of settlers in the American Midwest in the early 19th century. See also snakeroot poisoning.
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