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