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Examples
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Like the old-fashioned milk-sickness, you can never come to the place where it really exists.
The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith
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Even our currency system is blasted by goldbugs, and Prohibition milk-sickness is being treated with vermifuge.
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Monsieur Deville, having consulted Dr. Goforth, on vaccination, milk-sickness and miasma, took the mail-packet for Gallipolis.
A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878
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Ever heard of the milk-sickness, as the fever was called?
In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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In the autumn of 1818 the little community of Pigeon Creek was almost exterminated by a frightful pestilence called the milk-sickness, or, in the dialect of the country, "the milk-sick."
Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 John Hay 1870
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He went immediately home, and was taken down with (what is called) the milk-sickness, and lived but a short time.
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In one of his preaching excursions, in Miami County, Ohio, he was afflicted with the milk-sickness, (a disease very fatal in the first settling of this country,) from this he partially recovered, -- but never enjoyed uninterrupted health afterwards.
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