Poisoning caused by the ingestion of ergot fungi which infect rye and other cereals.
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Examples for "ergotism"
Examples for "ergotism"
1Constitutional diseases, such as ergotism, anthrax, and septicemia, predispose to gangrene.
2Outbreaks of ergotism are rare today, but a few did occur in the twentieth century.
3For some time, ergotism looked like a good contender.
4Wood also mentions a species of ergotism characterized by epileptic paroxysms, which he calls "spasmodic ergotism."
5Long before Albert Hofmann extracted lysergic acid from ergot to make LSD, people infected with ergotism had bad LSD-like trips of their own.
1I got the Saint Anthony's fire, also, in my left leg, and became quite a cripple.
2He was a big man with a white face, red hair and a touch of Saint Anthony's fire upon the cheek.
1Hysteria, hallucinations, and a feeling that something is crawling on the skin are all signs of ergot poisoning.