ergotism

How To Use ergotism In A Sentence

• The condition called ergotism or St. Anthony’s fire, common in medieval Europe, was caused by a mycotoxin produced by a mold that grew in rye bread. HOME COMFORTS
• Indeed Safire should be remembered, not only as a man passionate about language, but as a civil and urbane conservative who, I would like to believe, was as appalled by the current outbreak of right-wing political ergotism as am I. Archive 2009-09-01
• But at the time, no scientist had connected those black seed grains with ergotism.
• The use of ergot alkaloids is generally not advised during lactation, but this recommendation is based on a report of ergotism in an infant in a 1934 study and has not been confirmed by more recent detailed studies.
• But there appears to be no precedent at all for the current outbreak of political ergotism. Archive 2009-09-01
• Finally there are the everyday bits and pieces of life on earth in the new millennium — a smorgasbord of climate change, natural and unnatural disasters, the political ergotism presently infecting America, animal news, poetry, technology, good books and better gossip. Archive 2009-12-01
• When 40,000 people died of ergotism (caused by a toxic mould on wheat) in southern France in AD944, nobody would have described it as a ‘food scare’.
• I have a book on poisons that suggests that the Black Death may have been brought on by immunocompromisation due to widespread ergotism that year... Seanan_mcguire: 100 Books That Rocked My World, 2009 Edition.
• One of the main illnesses treated at the hospital was ergotism (called ‘St. Anthony's Fire ’), a disease caused by ergot, a fungus that grows especially on rye.
• Mold-induced food poisoning called ergot or ergotism. 歪酷博客 Ycool Blog