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(chemistry) A ptomaine obtained from putrid flesh and herring brines..
Two other alkaloids — mydaleine, and another not yet named — which Brieger isolated from putrefying livers and spleens, have a still more powerful purgative action, producing almost continuous and fatal diarrhoea.
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Mydaleine means (chemistry) A ptomaine obtained from putrid flesh and herring brines..
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Two other alkaloids — mydaleine, and another not yet named — which Brieger isolated from putrefying livers and spleens, have a still more powerful purgative action, producing almost continuous and fatal diarrhoea.
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