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Excerpt from The Toxic Constituent of Richweed or White Snakeroot (Eupatorium Urticaefolium)
Notwithstanding the many evidences of the poisonous nature of richweed and the many indications of its connection with human milk sickness, some observers have doubted its relation either to trembles or to milk sickness, and have advanced very strong arguments against the conclusion. They have pointed out that cattle have been known to graze for long periods in places where richweed grows abundantly without the appearance of any cases of trembles in the cattle or of milk sickness in the people who drank their milk. They further contended that in many of the feeding experiments the animals failed to develop abnormal symptoms. Finally, it was discovered that a disease resembling trembles in cattle and milk sickness in human beings exists in certain places in New Mexico and Texas where richweed is not found.
It is quite true that cattle have been known to graze with impunity in pastures infested with richweed, but it is also true that stock do not voluntarily eat this plant so long as other forage is available.
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