Abstract
DR. LEIGHTON'S report on the outbreak of botulism at Loch Maree in 1922 has been already noticed in NATURE (March 24, p. 415) and some account has also been given of the comprehensive researches of Prof. K. F. Meyer, of the University of California, into the distribution and biology of the responsible microbe (January 20, p. 95). In the present volume Dr. Leighton has collected into a convenient form most of the available information about the disease as it occurs in man and animals. Originally most frequently associated with sausages and especially common in Wurtemberg, most of the recent cases have been identified in America and more commonly with canned vegetables than meat products. “Limber-neck “in poultry appears to be botulism, and “grass sickness “of horses is either this or a closely allied condition. Prevention is a question of the adequate sterilisation of preserved foods. The second part of the book recounts the details of the tragedy of the potted duck sandwiches and concludes with an ample bibliography.
Botulism and Food Preservation (The Loch Maree Tragedy).
Dr.
Gerald
Leighton
By. Pp. xiii + 237. (London: W. Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 10s. net.
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Botulism and Food Preservation (The Loch Maree Tragedy). Nature 111, 737 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111737c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111737c0