抄録
These two types of food poisoning have few features in common. They are both due to ingestion by man of specific toxins released through bacterial multiplication in foodstuffs before consumption. Also, these toxins act primarily upon the central nervous system, though on quite different areas of it, and with results which, in the case of enterotoxin (as its name implies) mostly affect the gastro-intestinal tract. Again, certain foodstuffs, notably hams and prepared meats, are prone to convey either of these types of bacterial intoxication. But these similarities are greatly outweighed by the contrasts between the two conditions, which will be emphasized in a brief review under various headings.
