. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. aracteristic posture when the tremors following the eat-ing of white snakeroot {Eupatorium urticafolium) have become acute. The animalhas spread its feet apart to remain standing. {After Wolf, F. A., Curtis, R. S. andKaupp, B. F.: A Monograph on Trembles or Milk Sickness and White Bulletin 15, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, July, 1918, Plate2, Fig. B.) The onset of milk sickness in man is gradual, and after a day or two ofweakness and debili


. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. aracteristic posture when the tremors following the eat-ing of white snakeroot {Eupatorium urticafolium) have become acute. The animalhas spread its feet apart to remain standing. {After Wolf, F. A., Curtis, R. S. andKaupp, B. F.: A Monograph on Trembles or Milk Sickness and White Bulletin 15, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, July, 1918, Plate2, Fig. B.) The onset of milk sickness in man is gradual, and after a day or two ofweakness and debility accompanied by loss of appetite, the patient isseized with epigastric distress. Violent vomiting follows, associated withobstinate constipation with great thirst. Abdominal pain is noteworthyand muscular tremors are generally present. The foul odor of the breathis characteristic. The tongue is swollen. Respiration is normal, but thetemperatures is subnormal (97° to 98°). Severe cases show typhoidsymptoms with delirium. Coma precedes death, which may come as PRINCIPALLY SOLANACEOUS AND COMPOSITOUS PLANTS 107. Fig. 42.—Ewe 161 a few seconds subsequent to stage in preceding figure. Theanimal is beginning to drop down to a resting posture. (After Wolf, J. A., Curtis, R. Kaupp, B. F.: A Monograph on Trembles or Milk Sickness and White Bulletin 15, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, July, 1918,Plate 3, Fig. C.)


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