"Ptomaine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Germans what spies of theirs we have captured. And, since Sir Joseph and his wife were dead, there would have been no profit in publishing broadcast the story of the battle. So they agreed to let it be known that they died peacefully or rather painfully in their beds, of ptomaine poisoning." ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... Ptomaine (Gr. ptoma, a dead body). One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell |
