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468 fifty-fifth annual session # Captain William Thompson drove his cattle to this knob some years ago for the purpose of wintering them. They seemed to do well during the winter, but in the spring when he started to drive them home thirteen out of twenty died before he got home with them. I think it best to say that exercise, either of man or beast, develops the latent poison in a few hours; hence it is best to exercise all animals intended for food before killing them. I do not deem it necessary to enter into a minute description of places where it is found, as it is only proper to say it is always found, so far as I can learn, in loose, loamy mountain sections where the timber shades the ground. In 1848, when I first came to North Carolina, there was in the mountains of most of this western range more or less milk sickness found. Now that the country has been cleared up it is a rare thing to hear of a case of milk sickness. Dr. Woodfin was an educated physician who practiced mostly in Macon County. I wrent with him to see a case of milk sickness, and I am certain I never want to see a man suffer as he did. Two stout men were holding him in the bed, but frequently had to call for a third to keep him there. He would have suffered no more if he had been on a bed of hot embers. I never before or since saw a man suffer as he did. There is more credit due the physicians of Nashville, Tenn., than any other place for the work done in seeking the cause of so many deaths of stock and persons. They finally located the place and fenced it in, then stock were turned out without fear; but yet the question as to what it is was not answered. Some said it wTas a vegetable, others thought it a mineral of some kind. They in a body went over the whole enclosure and every vegetable whose properties were not fully known was sent to Philadelphia to the chemist, who analyzed all sent, and his report was short: "No poison in any sent." But this did not satisfy the good men and physicians engaged in trying to find out what killed the stock.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1908 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-055 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 55 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983307 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 468 |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1908 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-055-0484 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Filename | transactionsofme55medi_0484.jp2 |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 55 |
Page Number | 468 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 468 fifty-fifth annual session # Captain William Thompson drove his cattle to this knob some years ago for the purpose of wintering them. They seemed to do well during the winter, but in the spring when he started to drive them home thirteen out of twenty died before he got home with them. I think it best to say that exercise, either of man or beast, develops the latent poison in a few hours; hence it is best to exercise all animals intended for food before killing them. I do not deem it necessary to enter into a minute description of places where it is found, as it is only proper to say it is always found, so far as I can learn, in loose, loamy mountain sections where the timber shades the ground. In 1848, when I first came to North Carolina, there was in the mountains of most of this western range more or less milk sickness found. Now that the country has been cleared up it is a rare thing to hear of a case of milk sickness. Dr. Woodfin was an educated physician who practiced mostly in Macon County. I wrent with him to see a case of milk sickness, and I am certain I never want to see a man suffer as he did. Two stout men were holding him in the bed, but frequently had to call for a third to keep him there. He would have suffered no more if he had been on a bed of hot embers. I never before or since saw a man suffer as he did. There is more credit due the physicians of Nashville, Tenn., than any other place for the work done in seeking the cause of so many deaths of stock and persons. They finally located the place and fenced it in, then stock were turned out without fear; but yet the question as to what it is was not answered. Some said it wTas a vegetable, others thought it a mineral of some kind. They in a body went over the whole enclosure and every vegetable whose properties were not fully known was sent to Philadelphia to the chemist, who analyzed all sent, and his report was short: "No poison in any sent." But this did not satisfy the good men and physicians engaged in trying to find out what killed the stock. |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-16/nchh-16-055.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-d; nchh-16 |
Article Title | Milk Sick And Milk Sickness |
Article Author | J. A. Reagan |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-16-055 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-16 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983307 |
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