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Monday, November 15, 2010

Post-mortem #3


On October 5, 1818, Nancy Hanks Lincoln died of "milk sickness" a disease contracted from drinking the milk of a cow that has eaten the poisonous white snakeroot. Mrs. Lincoln was thirty-four years old when she died, and her son Abraham was nine.

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