NOUN
- a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines
How To Use ptomaine poisoning In A Sentence
- Oh, yes, it was a full man's job, and I dosed and doctored, and pulled teeth, and dragged my patients through mild little things like ptomaine poisoning. Chapter 32
- He died of ptomaine poisoning contracted from tainted Japanese crabmeat.
- The Mayor and Mayoress of Doncaster had been suffering from ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating pigeon pie provided for their guests at an entertainment at the Mansion House.
- Food poisoning -- commonly called ptomaine poisoning -- and the effects ascribed to "salts of tin" result from improper handling and improper preparation of the product before packing, or from allowing the product to stand in the tin after it has been opened. Every Step in Canning
- Mess around and give everybody ptomaine poisoning. A Kettle of Vultures
- Will Mamacita meet her maker at the hands of ptomaine poisoning? Mamacita Takes the Duane Reade Challenge; Her Cat Declines | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
- Being in town, I warily went along to the Colorado Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, a ballet I normally prefer only slightly to ptomaine poisoning.
- A serious outbreak of ptomaine poisoning, said to be due to eating ice cream, had occurred.
- According to the old Eclectic doctors it proved to be universally successful in the treatment of every case of ptomaine poisoning.
- Sailors on the American destroyer that took them onboard served an evening meal of bread and meat that made the passengers violently sick with ptomaine poisoning. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
