Botulism: A Clinical and Experimental Study (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Ernest Charles Dickson

9780265261385: Botulism: A Clinical and Experimental Study (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265261384 ISBN 13: 9780265261385

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My experimental work was undertaken to determine whether it is possible that the toxin of Bacillus botulinus may be formed in canned string beans in which there is no addition of protein of animal origin, and whether the thrombosis is a lesion which is characteristic of poisoning by the toxin. Subsequently, the investigation was extended to include other vegetables and fruits, and the importance of deter mining whether the toxin may be formed in foodstuffs which are not of animal origin was emphasized by the fact that there were several more outbreaks of a similar type in various portions of the States of California and Oregon, all of them following the ingestion of home canned vegetables or fruits.

It has been thought that botulism is exceedingly rare in this country. It is only in the larger Systems of Medicine that the symptomatology is discussed in detail, and there are very few reported cases in the American literature n which the diagnosis has been made. It has been generally understood that the intoxication is one of the group of poisonings from contaminated meat, and the importance of vegetables and fruits as a possible source of poisoning has not been recognized.

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