[95] Another species of Claviceps (C. paspali) which attacks the seeds of a wild grass is believed to be responsible for certain outbreaks of poisoning among cattle and horses (Science, XLIII [1916], 894).
[96] Barger (Jour. Chem. Soc., XCV [1909], 1123) has shown that parahydroxyphenylethylamine is present in ergot and is in some degree responsible for the physiological action of the drug.
[97] Although some of the early outbreaks were traced to the use of sausage, particularly in Württemberg, the proportion of recent botulism poisoning attributed to this food is no greater than of sausage-conveyed infections with the paratyphoid bacillus ([chap. vi]), and a number of the most completely studied outbreaks of botulism have been traced to ham, beans, and other foods.
[98] Deutsche Viertelj. f. öffentl. Ges., XLV (1913), 8.
[99] E. Sacquépée, Progrès méd., XXVI (1910), 583.
[100] Report to Local Govt. Board on Bacterial Food Poisoning and Food Inspection, N.S. No. 77, 1913, p. 27.
[101] Southern Cal. Pract., XXII (1907), 370.
[102] Ibid., XXV (1910), 121.
[103] Arch. of Int. Med., XIV (1914), 589.
[104] Amer. Med., X (1915), 85.