ptomaine poisoning
Example Sentences
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The image had its roots in a physical purging that Sylvia experienced as a result of ptomaine poisoning that she had contracted on 16 June, during a lunch at an advertising agency.
From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013
Few hours after their first meal most of the patients, all the doctors & nurses were stricken with ptomaine poisoning.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Wheeler Hinman, 62, Hearst financial writer; at Winnetka, Ill., from heart disease aggravated by ptomaine poisoning.
From Time Magazine Archive
There he might choose a Macfadden diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer's cramp.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is humiliating before others to have a diarrhoea from ptomaine poisoning or to vomit from it.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
