Lexic.us

Definition of Milk sickness

1. Noun. Disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.

2. Noun. Caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles.

Medical Definition of Milk sickness

1. An acute, often fatal disease caused by the ingestion of milk, milk products, or the flesh of cattle or sheep which have a disease known as trembles. It is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, constipation, and sometimes muscular tremors. It is caused by poisoning by white snakeroot (eupatorium rugosum) and the rayless goldenrod (haplopappus heterophyllus). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Milk Sickness

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Literary usage of Milk sickness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"milk sickness has invariably been associated in its causation with primitive ... Milk-sickness, in like manner, has no positive duration or regular course, ..."

2. Milk by Paul Gustav Heinemann (1919)
"The sympt oms produced in rabbits resembled those of milk-sickness. ... It is not. claimed that all cases of milk-sickness are due to intoxication with the ..."

3. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lunsford Pitts Yandell (1840)
"D. MILK-SICKNESS. When lately at Urbana, Ohio, we collected from Dr. Carter, who has practised medicine in that town for more than a quarter of a century, ..."

4. Memoirs, Official and Personal: With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1846)
"... the newspaper—Pelican Island—Shooting—Panic of the inhabitants—The milk-sickness. OrR voyagers felt now, upon this onward current, as the mariner feels, ..."

5. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Yet as long as North America has uncultivated land with climatic conditions favorable to the growth of a certain plant to be described later, milk-sickness ..."

6. The Milk Question by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1912)
"milk sickness milk sickness is a peculiar disease also known as the "sloes" ... In the words of Colonel Watterson, "the dreaded milk sickness stalked abroad ..."

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