| 1. | In early September 1818, some residents started coming down with milk sickness.
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| 2. | In 1818, as many as half of the residents of the county died of milk sickness.
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| 3. | During their conversations, the Shawnee told her that the white snakeroot plant caused milk sickness in humans.
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| 4. | Most of those in Little Pigeon Creek with milk sickness became deathly ill, including Abraham's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
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| 5. | Farmers found that only clearing the riverbanks and grazing cattle on tended fields ended the occurrence of milk sickness.
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| 6. | When cattle consume the plant, their meat and milk become contaminated and cause the sometimes fatal condition milk sickness.
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| 7. | When milk sickness broke out, Anna Hobbs studied the characteristics of the illness and noted the results in her diary.
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| 8. | In the nineteenth century before people understood the cause of the illness, thousands in the Midwest died of milk sickness.
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| 9. | Tom and Elizabeth Sparrow died of milk sickness a few weeks before Nancy's death and they are all buried together.
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| 10. | In October 1818, Nancy died of milk sickness } } and was buried within a half mile of the homestead.
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