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MILK SICKNESS. Weavekville, X. C January J26th, ISTS. r am glad Dr. Woodfin is writing on Milk Sickness; tliero is no man in the State bettor qualified to do the subject justice tlian he, as his experience is greater tlian any man in the State, with that terrible disease. As it is desirable to know all we can in regard to it, I have thought that it Avould be acceptable to give the opinion of another who, like Dr. AVoodfin, has had to combat it for years in a different locality. There is a creek in Middle Tennessee^ near Hartsville, called (Joose Creek. This creek has three branches. Between the west and middle parts there is a very rich knob, called Millstone Knob, al-Avays covered by a dense groAvth of cane. It is here that the poison wliich causes milk sickness, or wliatever it is^ abounds. This disease Avas treated by Dr. Yandell, the father of Professor I j. P. Yandell, of Lonisville Medical College, as far back as 1812 or 1814, under the name of The Puking Fever."' Dr. D. AV. Mentlow, says, in regard to the disease at this partic* nlar locality, ^'Some contend that it has its origin in vegetable matter groAving in the immediate vicinity of the Millstone Knob, others that the atmosphere surrounding this knob becomes contaminated by some means, thev knoAV not hoAv, and that animals breathing this poisoned air during the night become affected. Some ascribe it to animalcuh"e floating in the,^atmosphere ; these are. inhaled by the lungs of the animal, and by this means the poison enters the system." And, lastly (and correctly as we think) some contend that it is a mineral poison, rising from the earth during the day in the form of halitus or gas, and settles on vegetable matter during the night. In this Avay cattle that are permitted to run out during tlte night contract the poison by feeding on the bedewed vegetation." This seems to me to be the most plausible theory : for it is Avell knoAvn by all Avho live in the vicinity of the poison, that the most dangerous time is when the dew is on vegetable matter; consequently many keep up their milk cows, until tbe sun has evaporated tlie dew in the morning, and drive them uj) before it begins to settle in the evening : these escape Avithimpunity, notAvithstand-ino- thev j>Taze on the Mills'tono Knob durina* the dav. As further
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-19: North Carolina Medical Journal [1878-1899] |
Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1878-1899] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Wilmington; Charlotte : The Journal?, 1878-1899. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
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Date | 1878 |
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Language | English |
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1878-1899] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Publisher | Wilmington; Charlotte : The Journal?, 1878-1899. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1878 |
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Volume Number | 1 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 311 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | MILK SICKNESS. Weavekville, X. C January J26th, ISTS. r am glad Dr. Woodfin is writing on Milk Sickness; tliero is no man in the State bettor qualified to do the subject justice tlian he, as his experience is greater tlian any man in the State, with that terrible disease. As it is desirable to know all we can in regard to it, I have thought that it Avould be acceptable to give the opinion of another who, like Dr. AVoodfin, has had to combat it for years in a different locality. There is a creek in Middle Tennessee^ near Hartsville, called (Joose Creek. This creek has three branches. Between the west and middle parts there is a very rich knob, called Millstone Knob, al-Avays covered by a dense groAvth of cane. It is here that the poison wliich causes milk sickness, or wliatever it is^ abounds. This disease Avas treated by Dr. Yandell, the father of Professor I j. P. Yandell, of Lonisville Medical College, as far back as 1812 or 1814, under the name of The Puking Fever."' Dr. D. AV. Mentlow, says, in regard to the disease at this partic* nlar locality, ^'Some contend that it has its origin in vegetable matter groAving in the immediate vicinity of the Millstone Knob, others that the atmosphere surrounding this knob becomes contaminated by some means, thev knoAV not hoAv, and that animals breathing this poisoned air during the night become affected. Some ascribe it to animalcuh"e floating in the,^atmosphere ; these are. inhaled by the lungs of the animal, and by this means the poison enters the system." And, lastly (and correctly as we think) some contend that it is a mineral poison, rising from the earth during the day in the form of halitus or gas, and settles on vegetable matter during the night. In this Avay cattle that are permitted to run out during tlte night contract the poison by feeding on the bedewed vegetation." This seems to me to be the most plausible theory : for it is Avell knoAvn by all Avho live in the vicinity of the poison, that the most dangerous time is when the dew is on vegetable matter; consequently many keep up their milk cows, until tbe sun has evaporated tlie dew in the morning, and drive them uj) before it begins to settle in the evening : these escape Avithimpunity, notAvithstand-ino- thev j>Taze on the Mills'tono Knob durina* the dav. As further |
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