The detection of methyl anthranilate in fruit juices

✍ Scribed by Frederick B. Power

• Book ID: 104123267
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1921
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 92 KB
• Volume: 191
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(21)90192-3

✦ Synopsis

CALCIUM CI-ILORIDE injected into guinea-pigs with toxin-freed bacilli or spores of B. botulinus acts as an accessory factor in producing botulism. Under such conditions the behavior of B. botulinus is similar to that reported by Bullock and Cramer for the organisms of gas gangrene and tetanus.

On the basis of experiments tried, toxin-freed spores of the Boise strain of B. botuIinus, when fed in sufficiently large doses to guinea-pigs, can produce the specific disease and death, while the Nevin strain similarly fed does so occasionally. A limited pathogenicity is thus indicated.

Foods suspected of containing B. botulinus should be destroyed, not heated and eaten.