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Meanings of ptomaine poisoning in English

A term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines.

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        Examples for "ptomaine"
        1
        For ptomaine poisoning had unexpectedly hastened the end of old Mr. Godwin.
        The Dream Doctor
        2
        Selmi announced the existence of what he called ptomaine in 1870.
        The new yorker
        3
        I understand there is always a danger of ptomaine poisoning with such things.
        The Making of a Soul
        4
        Johnny had evidently never heard of ptomaine-poisoning, for nothing came amiss.
        Johnny Bear, and Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted
        5
        This is the essential point and will prevent ptomaine poisoning.
        Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book / Numerous New Recipes Based on Present ...
        Usage of ptomaine poisoning in English
        1
        For ptomaine poisoning had unexpectedly hastened the end of old Mr. Godwin.
        The Dream Doctor
        2
        I understand there is always a danger of ptomaine poisoning with such things.
        The Making of a Soul
        3
        This is the essential point and will prevent ptomaine poisoning.
        Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book / Numerous New Recipes Based on Present ...
        4
        Fourth: More apt to putrefy and thus give ptomaine poisoning.
        Diet and Health; With Key to the Calories
        5
        Attacks of acute indigestion resulting from this cause are much like the so-called ptomaine poisoning.
        How to Use Your Mind / A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for...
        6
        As the use of canned goods becomes more and more extensive, ptomaine poisoning is more frequent.
        The Dream Doctor
        7
        Their main difficulty was dysentery and ptomaine poisoning.
        The Worst Journey in the World / Antarctic 1910-1913
        8
        A hundred years ago there were no bacilli, no ptomaine poisoning, no diphtheria, and no appendicitis.
        Literary Lapses
        9
        Dec. 17-ManyGermans arrested following raid on coast towns; numerous cases of ptomaine poisoning in Blackheath Camp.
        The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, ...
        10
        It is humiliating before others to have a diarrhoea from ptomaine poisoning or to vomit from it.
        The old man and the sea
        11
        Yet at the same time, I continued, this woman was very ill, a case of ptomaine poisoning-
        They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming
        12
        We don't want to get ptomaine poisoning.
        Pluck on the Long Trail; Or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies
        13
        But it was ptomaine poisoning.
        The Dream Doctor
        14
        I remember once Mary's aunt-orwas it Cook's aunt-oneof them any way-nearly died of eating tinned lobster- ptomaine poisoning.
        The Red Planet
        15
        Sooner or later you're going to have those five people that got ptomaine poisoning, from the fish, or say they did.
        Mildred Pierce
        16
        Death was considered to be due to ptomaine poisoning, a certificate was given to that effect, and the victim was duly buried.
        Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
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