The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-02-15

eases which may he inflicted upon us
at any time. namely .upd poisunings.
\ large number oi ca .,s OF food pois-
oninrs occur early some are detailed
IN the daily press, III, great majority
are neither recorded ID any Journal.
scientific or otherwi-, nos. on ac-
count of their slight and passing char
acter, H. medical aid ought.
Thu following is % Npical news
paper article. This vas taken from
the Morning duurna ot three days
ago and illustrates ~, type uf case
which the newspaper report rather
frequently:
"Ptoma.ue Poisoning I.csuIts ia Death
OF Visitor at AHtesia.
'Artcsia, y. NJ. Fch An elder
~ farmer by the nam, OF lriggs. of
near Kansas city. Mo. who was
taken from the southbound passenger
saturday IN "a serious condition, died
in his room at the Cafe hotel about
midnight last night. uriggs came to
Artcsia to spend a Few weeks visiting
with his old friend, pr Hon, who
lives on a farm ncar .Nrtesia. He was
! taken III on the train a- II pulled into
Roswell and was hardls conscious
when he reached Artc-la.
Doctors who were hurricdly cellcd
pronounced the troui'o 60 be pto-
maine poisoning. short, after leav-
ing tram the sick man lost conscious
ness and did not apau recover con
sciousness. II Is thournt thr; he had
some canned meat ior lunch which
poisoned him
Reese says that: "NIthin the past
quarter century the attention has been
actively drawn To tn existence Ut u
certain lass oi bodies to winch sell
M u distinguished Italian chemist.
gave tho name 81 ptouIiuas tirom a
Grcck word meaning ID dead bodyD.
resulting itom the d. uf organic
substances.
II has LONE been kupwu that pu-
crescent meat will ocoas iu .tNerc and
sometimes fatal sympt. ms m persons
who rnrtakc of IT,. Those .ymptoms
are OF % uatcoti-irritauf character and
strongly resemble tho. produced by
certain ismiiinr poison similar ef-
fleets are known to OCCASIONALLY re-
suit from oh"cs", sausa-'s and certain
shei! fish. particularly tom mussols.
ana iu ON Instance from canned
meat ana vegetables. Thcs" anomal-
Gus symptoms hnVe formerly been at
tributcd to various causes bat hithcr-
to no satisfactory explanation of thcm
has ever been offered until the discov-
cry OF the ptomaiues h1. solved the
my st"ry ana afforded o. rational and
%scicntiii, solution.
It b. now known thai p~I'rolac,ion
h. due To- the presence OF microbes.
which when Introduced into the ami
NAL body may dcvclop sorlous aud
even fatal disease. Th~ tact affords
a satisfactory explanation of those
otherwise obscure case OF poisoning
that occasionally result nom purtak-
ink ~ certain articles ol food such as
aimed provisions. mills. zoe cream,
sausage. s'hV'sc. etc. Rhich mas an
dorgore unsupported putrefaruon"
In mon, detan We note that food
poisoning may originate ia any one of
the full'n, ms waSs ca Tho food is
Infected ana The poison ls generated
ouil ana wholly before III" food Is
taken - the Injecting organism may
begin the elaboration OF is poisonous
products outside o' aud continue h
same process lnsid, 90 h body, go
the infection may not result In the
production al pnisun- untn thc food is
taken into tho body. In an OF these
forms the Infection ~ IN" food is the
essential element 10 is this that must
D." prevented and % 81 60 ,E.s that
especial attention must be called
The first of th"-r three types is
commonly met with IN cases of sea
food which has come fran un~hule-
som" surrounding. Musseis which,
have been taken from polluted water
can cause much sickuess and death.
oysters and FISH from ~tagnaut VA
ter have produced ike result. Many
people look upon canned Holsters
with suspicion. though the probability
that such HOLSTERS have come from
imput. water is ,mnN compared with
the chances that thcN have not been
canned while fresh, 81 that IA" cam
ning has been tone impcricctly.
This brings up the mattel 90 imper-
feet preservation Suusagos. hams
ana other preserved meats have been
known 10 produ," -i,kncss u death.
ana m many cases of such loisonings
II has been found that az the ccnters
~ these meats bacteria have had rec
opportunity to clihuraic their poison
Gus chemicals For The sam" reason
OF complete sterilization cat
In this ease for want OF hcaD
meat is sometimes found with
= dcciycd potion az he enter nl the
though MS decay may not he
by appearance. taste 90 odor
More often. however one or more OF
'hese warninRs is W1nifcsted in some
icgrce.
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