, 1889-09-05
POISON In SOME MILK.
THOSE DEADLY PToMAINES AND
HOW THEY DEVELOP.

Disease Turks in MIX snd Canned Meats
A Record of the Cases of Poisoning by
Ice Cream
81 was much interested in the account
of a city dSpensary physicians recent
experience at a house where four women
and n girl were poisoned by a quart of
milk" said DIR. W. B. Clarke, "and if
the general public will divest its mind of
any lingering suspicion it may entertain
that our handling of that case, or cases
of similar character, is of the sensational
order rather han for the public good,
much benefit may accrue by thus attrac-
ting attention to the peculiar danger at
times attending the indigestion of certain
articles Of food, more especially meat,
milk and ice cream"
"What is the peculiar danger to which
you REFER asked the reporter.
Poisoning by ptomaines. The term
puzzles you, does it? To explain, 1 will
say that the word ptomain comes from
the word ptoma, a cadaver, or dead body,
and ptomaines are cadaveric alkaloids,
the results of putrefaction, and are very
poisonous. They were discovered by
Armand Gautier about 1870, and soon
after by Selmi, an Italian. In 1886 eau
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co,so 81 many d;sooses
ssTbosa noisonons s,hstoroas -
known 70 infast manv artioIes 81 81
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uea -
$50 20 a. oanoIns;on 49, e. -
startad bv hoctaria Rac,ar;a 80 ~
called n minute fnnn,e or naras;te in
visible 10 the noked eve and which eorr-
;sb oplv in animal matter feedino nraf-
erablv on the aIbuminous nortion and
each Substance NAV be sold 10 have its
oun nor,icrIor broed Of boctar;, The
increase wifi ,mazing raniditv in ony
substance In which tbev Get : Start o.
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tha nawsnanorss wird nm oIwaUs T. 20 tha
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800 az" - - LaL1aann%ans
a. moran ,Uoro torr;bIa - 81
concaiva 81 ono corse for tboir cond;tion
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tan+ ~ . uary pnoIaan oan oons;na tLa
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nIaina1 jo,4hs ill ~ no,foot I'LL
e. a,ob a naro6ox con no ououad that
go H. Eabtnino ont ~ tbo cIear l.
orc now Inv fbe host authorities assigned
70 +b;s s.cret anamy Tbis where tho
n,,bar Of tba organisn,s arc infinite ord
nowarF,I 10 Gov notbinr ~ Enrar;ro
Illnesses consad nv them When fey and
,rookn
"Ara tbore noisonons ntop,aic nara
s;+oa fo,nd In otbor foods in ooporo,
Tsepn
~of.a, IN oonnad na.ts I,Iv "A
1891 had occasion in one If the city
noners 10 noint ont that DANCER the lat
Ter haIng brouobt ont Inv the renort Of a
snit for damages Instituted bv man
ubo nod nod HE family noisoDed hv
canned meat The meat nav have been
nerfectlv good when opened. but the
poison develons verv soon after letting
air info n
.sTbere ia n very imnortant hearing
the nroner understandina of This subject
has mon the rearing of infants Every
one knows that thousands of them die
in orr large cities every summer because
of imnrre diseased or unsuitable milk
INDEED II IL one Of the nroblems os the
ace how to rear a bottle fed infant in n
LARGO citv They ar. so sensitive and
snscent;bie that milk which might NOT