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). (From Dorland, 27th ed)
    

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Observations on the milk sickness, sick stomach, or gastro enteritis / by N. Crookshank.

The pioneer history of milk sickness / by Frederick Stenn.

The milk sickness.

A treatise on the cause of the disease called by the people the milk-sickness : as it occurs in the Western and Southern States / by John Simpson Seaton.

The milk sick : a disease of the Midwest / [by George T. Weber].

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Observations on the milk sickness, sick stomach, or gastro enteritis / by N. Crookshank.

The pioneer history of milk sickness / by Frederick Stenn.

The milk sickness.

A treatise on the cause of the disease called by the people the milk-sickness : as it occurs in the Western and Southern States / by John Simpson Seaton.

The milk sick : a disease of the Midwest / [by George T. Weber].