The dreaded 19th-century disease known as milk sickness claimed the lives of many Hoosiers, including 9-year-old Abraham Lincolns mother. Not until the mid-20th century did researchers confirm that milk sickness is caused by a poison produced by the white snakeroot plant, which still grows freely throughout the southern Indiana woods. Cows and goats ate the plant and passed the poison to humans through milk and meat. In the March issue of the Indiana Magazine of History, Dr. Walter J. Daly, dean emeritus of the IU School of Medicine, describes the decades of efforts to solve the puzzle of this formerly unpredictable, untreatable and highly fatal disease.

Week 44: #52 Ancestors - Scary Stuff By Eilene Lyon Confronting our own mortality is one of the scariest things we ever do. My research into the 19th-century lives of my ancestors and kin has revealed many awful ways to die. Ive previously discussed milk sickness and tuberculosis. A few recent coincidences led me to…

Elbow pain is a fairly common condition among baseball pitchers. Pitchers elbow usually presents as pain along the inside part of the elbow during, or after, throwing activity. This injury is usually caused by repetitive motion and stress at the elbow, resulting in pulling and stretching of the tendons and ligaments of the inner elbow. It can cause pain and swelling inside