ptomaine poisoning
Example Sentences
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Maybe I’ll take over a local restaurant, so I can give the entire community ptomaine poisoning.`
From Washington Post
Her illness is followed by a mass ptomaine poisoning at a “fashion” lunch.
From The New Yorker
On assignment in Mexico to round up Geronimo and his band, one officer got “ptomaine poisoning from a can of rancid Armour corned beef,” and another almost died of a tarantula bite.
From Washington Post
He said he was suffering from ptomaine poisoning—but his symptoms indicated a nervous collapse.
From Literature
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
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