Posts Tagged ‘Milk Sickness’
February 3, 2021 Jellicoe’s Shute House Masterpiece, Carl Ludwig Blume, the Huckleberry, White Snakeroot, Both by Douglas Crase, and Celebrating Sidney Lanier
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News Drawing on History, Philosophy, Psychology & Art, The Gardens of Shute House are Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe’s Masterpiece | House & Garden Botanical History On This…
Read MoreMilk Sickness and Loss: The Tragic Death of Nancy Hanks Lincoln by Amy Stewart
One of the most famous victims of milk sickness was Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln. She fought the disease for a week but finally succumbed, as did her aunt and uncle and several other people in the small town of Little Pigeon Creek, Indiana. She died in 1818 at the age of thirty-four,…
Read MoreDeadly Wild or White Snakeroot: The Toxin Behind Milk Fever
“In the early 1800s, milk sickness resulted in the death of thousands of people.The most famous person to die from it was Abraham Lincoln’s mother in 1818.” July 8, 1965 On this day, the Vincennes, Indiana newspaper reported on a sickness caused by snakeroot: It was about 140 years ago, that the town of Hindustan,…
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