Milk Sickness Caused By White Snakeroot PDF Download

Excerpt from Trembles: Or Milk Sickness Milk sickness or trembles is a disease that attacks persons and lower animals alike. It is due to a poisonous substance, tremetol, present in certain poisonous plants. In the eastern portion of this country white snakeroot is the plant that carries tremetol. In the Southwest, jimmyweed and a closely related plant, Aplopappus fruticosus, furnish the poison. The poison is secreted in the milk of animals that have-grazed on these plants and such milk is capable of causing the 'disease in persons and suckling animals. The disease can be prevented by keeping livestock away from the plants either by fencing off the areas where the plants grow or, better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.