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"Milk sickness is a kind of poisoning that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on the white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol." "Dr. Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby is credited with identifying the plant in the 1830s. Legend has it that she was taught about the plant's properties by a Shawnee woman." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageratina_altissima#Toxicity #histsci #histnat #histmed #womeninSTEM