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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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- Sickness, Milk
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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a form of plant pois: see MeSH definition
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History Note
95; was see PLANT POISONING 1979-94; was see under PLANT POISONING 1968-78; was heading 1963-67
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- Plant Poisoning (1966-1994)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Milk Sickness. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018602. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018602
- Milk Sickness. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness
- Milk Sickness. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17153765