milk sickness

noun

milk sickness

noun
1

A condition, with trembling and vomiting, caused by ingestion of milk, meat, etc. from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot, which contains the poison tremetol.

Synonyms
galactopathy, milksick, slows, trembles

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