词汇 | botulism |
词源 | botulism. Why, you ask, does the Latin word for sausage, botulus, give us the English word botulism, first recorded in 1878, for “a form of food poisoning”? The answer is that the earliest cases of such food poisoning through improperly stored food involved canned sausages. |
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