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Medical toxicology. 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 ...
- Milk fever
Milk fever, postparturient hypocalcemia, or parturient...
- Nancy Hanks
The plant contains the potent toxin tremetol, which is...
- Milk fever
Milk sickness has been called variously alkali poisoning, puking disease, sick stomach, the slows or sloes, stiff joints, swamp sickness, tires, and trembles (when it occurs in animals). It is now known as tremetol poisoning after an identified toxic ingredient of the white snakeroot and rayless goldenrod.
- Thomas Cone
- 1993
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. Quick Facts Specialty ...
Milk sickness, also called "milk sick fever" and "sick stomach," is caused by the excretion of tremetol or tremetone, the toxin in white snakeroot and rayless goldenrod, when these common plants are consumed by herbivorous animals.
INNOVATION. How an 1800s Midwife Solved a Poisonous Mystery. For decades before Doctor Anna’s discovery, “milk sickness” terrorized the Midwest, killing thousands of Americans on the frontier....
