Sausage Poison, the poisonous agent or principle existing in sausages made under certain unknown conditions. It has been variously regarded as empyreumatic oil, as an acid formed in consequence of a modified process of putrefaction, and as the effect of a fungus, Sarcina botulina.


Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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