^^dJl^^iCK^M^-^l^ M~^dieai and Surgiml BeportW 



states that the affection of cattle Imcrwn as milk sickness, 



is caused by eating the white snake root, JEupatmnum 



Agerataidis, This discovery seeins to have been made by 



three seperate observers, at about the same time One of 

 them Mr. William Jerry, of Edwardsville, IIL, in 1860 

 gathered this plant by mistake for the nettle, and eat it 

 as boiled greens. On the day following, he was suddenly 

 seized witli violent trembling, prostration, and faintness, 

 and on the next day with vomiting, and violent retch- 

 ing. He did not fully recover in five years, and in the 

 me^in time tried the plant on domestic animals with sim- 

 ilar results. Dr. Amos Sawyer of Hillsboro, 111., Mr. R. 

 N. Lee of Nokomis, Dr. McPheeters of St. Louis, Botanist, 

 and Mr. Enno chemist, all coincide in the opinion that 

 milk sickness is caused by this hitherto unsuspected 

 plant, which animals are said to like when it is in bloom* 



