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Show sponsible for food poisoning 5 tulism never comes from fresh?" cooked foods, but generally tnl canned goods. In recent years can ners have done much scientific re! search to overcome this situation and today such Illness Is becomia rare. E Food Idiosyncrasies should not be confused with , botulism, 0, many persons are made sick b, eating freBh, clean shell fish, t,er. ries, tomatoes, cereals, eggs.'mn and even honey. Indeed 1' have seen cases where even the sight of smell of certain foods would cause nausa and other disturbing symptoms. modern. Numerous printed reports referred re-ferred to outbreak as "Ptomata poisoning"-but medicine looks upon "ptomain poisoning" as a sort of myth and prefers to call such sickness "food poisoning. Food poisoning is not due to decomposed de-composed foods, which are usually rejected by the person to whom they are offered on account of their disagreeable taste and smell but usually is caused by natural poisons found i n vegetables fruits, berries, melons, fish and meats and frequently results from parasites depositing their eggs on such materials. Sometimes it may be a deliberate act on the part of FOOD POISONING A recent epidemic resulting from eating contaminated food, in which several hundred persons were more or less incapacitated for several days, suggests the advisability ad-visability of a few words on this subject. Competent and experienced doctors doc-tors and health officers were unable un-able to locate the cause of the trouble. Every establishment preparing pre-paring food for consumption was found to be scrupulously clean, the qualities of the articles used were of the very best and the methods of cooking them most some disgruntled restaurant employee, em-ployee, or It may follow the accidental ac-cidental use of Insect powders, arsenic, ar-senic, caustic alkalies and lant insecticides, which should never be kept in a kitchen. The chief culprit is botulism a food poison caused by the bacillus ba-cillus botulinis. In Dayton, Ohio, many deaths resulted after a banquet ban-quet in which suspicion pointed to the chef, but which afterwards was scientifically traced to ripe olives, which came direct from high grade manufactures in bottles. bot-tles. Botulism Is serious and the mortality rate high. Any food containing protein may cause this disease, because the germ grows and produces its own poison in protein foods of either animal or plant origin. Sausages, hams, fish, corn, beans, asparagus, olives, spinach, and cottage cot-tage cheese frequently are re- |