ptomaine poisoning
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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
His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not likely that either Washington's or Massillon's victims had ptomaine poisoning.
From Time Magazine Archive
His case was diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning with complications.
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
