The basic character of ptomaines may be understood if they be regarded as made up of one or more molecules of ammonia in which the hydrogen has been replaced by alkyl or other radicals.
As ptomaines result from the putrefaction of proteins, so they are still further decomposed by bacteria and eventually the nitrogen is liberated either as free nitrogen or as ammonia.
Numerous other ptomaines have been isolated and described.
Ptomaines are chemical compounds of an alkaloidal nature formed in protein substances during putrefaction.
Then followed," he hurried on, "the development of the usual ptomainesin the body itself.
Was he killed by ordinary ptomaine poisoning, and had conine, or rather its double, developed first in his food along with other ptomaines that were not inert?
No general reaction is known by which the ptomaines can be distinguished from the vegetable alkaloids.
Indeed, ptomaines are present probably to a greater or less extent in every organ which is submitted to the toxicologist for examination.
A number of ptomaines and other substances also respond to this test, so that in itself it is not conclusive.
In the filtrate from phospho-molybdate, ptomaines may also be found by treating with lead acetate to get rid of the phospho-molybdic acid, and then adding certain reactives.
When this albuminoid is eliminated, then the hydrochlorates or the double salts of the ptomaines crystallise.
If it is suspected that some of the ptomaines may have been separated with the lead precipitate, this lead precipitate can be decomposed by SH{2} and investigated.
Hence this reaction can be utilised for certain of the ptomaines only.
The mercury precipitate is boiled with water, and by the different solubility of the mercury salts of certain ptomaines some separation takes place.
For the elimination of the ptomaines which have been absorbed into the circulation and carried to the tissues, nothing is better than the internal use of water.
Dana has called attention to the probable role played by ptomaines produced in the alimentary canal in the development of organic disease of the central nervous system.
To remove or destroy the cause (to eliminate the germs and ptomaines from the body).
Then, lo and behold, the Cetonia turns putrid and the Scolia dies, poisoned by the ptomaines of the decomposing game!
The inexperienced creature perished; of that there is not a shadow of doubt, unless we admit an absurdity and imagine the larva of antiquity feeding upon those terrible ptomaines which so swiftly kill its descendants to-day.
Ptomaines may be produced abundantly in animal substances which, after exposure under insanitary conditions, have been excluded from the air.
Ptomaines or toxalbumins are sometimes found in potted meats and sausages, and are due to organisms--the Bacillus botulinus, the B.
You can get a divorce and marry some thread of a woman who has ptomaines all the time!
People brought their ptomaines to him from the far places, his patients included the idlest rich, the bloatedest aristocrats, the most profitable of the profiteers.
In the course of my experience I have been called to mothers, five to eight days after delivery, who were in a raging fever, presumably from the ptomaines which had developed in the vagina and poisoned the blood.
The ptomaines afford no specific reaction whereby they may be readily identified; and their identification is effected only after a painstaking analysis.
At first sight, there appears to be a great difference between these alkaloidal bases, the ptomaines and leucomaines, and the albuminoid toxins proper.
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