Poisoning caused by the ingestion of ergot fungi which infect rye and other cereals.
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.
6 States are not governed by ergotisms .
7 As Sir Thomas Browne said long ago, nations are not governed by ergotisms (or as we should say syllogisms) but by instinct and common sense.
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