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.

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Disease Called the Milk-Sickness, or Trembles Among the vast number of disorders to which the human frame is liable, there is none, perhaps, that holds a more conspicuous name among Medical men - there is none that fills the minds of persons residing 'within the bounds of infected districts, with more horror, with more dread, with more forebodings of death - than does the disease which heads this article. 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.

Excerpt from An Essay on "the Milk Sickness" Of the Human Subject, or "the Trembles" Of Animals: Embracing Its History, Cause, and Treatment Writers on disease find but two avenues to usefulness: the one, by a contribution of newly discovered facts - the other, by the deduction, and practical application, of new inferences from facts already established. Inasmuch, therefore, as I make, in this instance, but slight pretension to the former - having few, if any, new facts to communicate; the merit, if any should be found in what I have to write, will consist in the use of mate rials, for which I am indebted to the labors of other observers. 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.