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.
Although very rare today, milk sickness claimed thousands of lives among migrants to the Midwest in the early 19th century in the United States, especially in frontier areas along ...
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