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
Most food poisoning, popularly known as ptomaine poisoning, comes from eating custards, ice cream or sausages which contain staphylococcus germs, usually occurs in the summer, if these foods are not kept on ice.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Hardings went to Alaska in June 1923, returned to San Francisco where on Aug. 3 President Harding died suddenly after a five-day illness from ptomaine poisoning.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is commonly called "ptomaine poisoning" is poisoning from foods which contain putrefactive bacteria.
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
