milk sickness
noun
1
: an acute disease characterized by weakness, vomiting, and constipation and caused by eating dairy products or meat from cattle poisoned by various plants
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In 1965, when the journal Economic Botany compiled a literature review of milk sickness, including period accounts, newspaper articles and academic journals, the authors noted that milk sickness was rarely mentioned even in later 19th-century American medical textbooks.
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Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
In DuBois County, the majority of recorded deaths in the early 1800s came from milk sickness.
—Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
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Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
In DuBois County, the majority of recorded deaths in the early 1800s came from milk sickness.
—Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
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“Milk sickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/milk%20sickness. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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