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
His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lad crippled by two bone operations, tuberculosis of the hip, pneumonia, ptomaine poisoning, appendicitis, graduated at the head of his Manhattan high-school class.
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
