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
It is not likely that either Washington's or Massillon's victims had ptomaine poisoning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Food Poisoning� Washington's hospitals recorded the cases as "ptomaine poisoning."
From Time Magazine Archive
Bette Davis: up & around after a siege of 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
