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
After he had returned silently to Washington, the V. of F. W. went to Annapolis for a crab feast, which afflicted several hundred delegates with ptomaine poisoning.
From Time Magazine Archive
His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork.
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
