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botulism (n.)
1878, from German
Botulismus
(1878), coined in German from Latin
botulus
"sausage" (see
bowel
) +
-ismus
suffix of action or state (see
-ism
). Sickness first traced to eating tainted sausage (
sausage poisoning
was an old name for it).
