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

Few hours after their first meal most of the patients, all the doctors & nurses were stricken with ptomaine poisoning.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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