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单词 milk sickness
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milk sickness
milk sickness n. U.S. an often fatal disorder of humans characterized by vomiting, muscle tremors, respiratory difficulty, convulsions, and coma, caused by ingesting dairy products or meat from livestock that have grazed on white snakeroot ( Eupatorium rugosum) or rayless goldenrod ( Haplopappus heterophyllus); (also) the disorder of livestock caused by grazing on these plants (usually called trembles).
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1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 76 Along the Missouri R. they have a disease called the milk sickness.
1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 9 Mar. in Winter in West (1835) II. 69 I passed a deserted village, the whole population of which had been destroyed by the ‘milk sickness’.
1844 Godey's Lady's Bk. Aug. 65 The next time she presented herself she was warded off as if she had been a personification of the black tongue or the milk sickness.
1919 J. P. Dunn Indiana & Indianans II. 804 From 1836 to 1856, the disease known as..‘milk sickness’, was encountered in numerous localities.
1942 L. Cannon Look to Mountain 315 The flies and the rattlesnakes..milk sickness in summer..all them 're a nuisance.
1972 Listener 21 Dec. 860/3 Their neighbours went down with the milk sickness picked up from cows that chewed on snake root.
1990 Vet. & Human Toxicol. 32 Suppl. 81 Resurgence of livestock production on small farm units, and utilization of fresh raw milk may result in milk sickness, if the animals have white snakeroot exposure.
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