Food Poisoning

The most characteristic examples of "food poisoning," popularly speaking, are those in which the symptoms appear shortly after eating and in which gastro-intestinal disturbances...

Well-known mineral or organic poisons--"chemical poisons"--sometimes find their way into food, being either introduced accidentally in the process of manufacture or preparation,...

While many and diverse causes of food poisoning have been discussed in the foregoing pages, there remain certain affections definitely connected with food that are still of obsc...

In close relation to the cases of infection with animal or plant parasites which have been discussed, there are certain well-established instances of poisoning by substances tha...

Many cases of so-called food poisoning are due to the presence of pathogenic bacteria in the food. In some instances, as in the typical meat poisoning epidemics, symptoms develo...

Poisonous plants have sometimes figured conspicuously in human affairs. Every reader of ancient history knows how Socrates "drank the hemlock," and how crafty imperial murderers...

How frequently food poisoning occurs is not definitely known. Everybody is aware that certain articles of food are now and again held responsible for more or less severe "attack...

Not only pathogenic bacteria but certain kinds of animal parasites sometimes enter the human body in or upon articles of food. One of the most important of these is the parasite...

The first introduction under the skin of a guinea-pig of a minute quantity of egg-white or other apparently harmless protein substance is itself without visible injurious effect...