Sentences with phrase «rye ergot»
At Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally dosed himself with LSD, a rye ergot fungus he had been working with, and suddenly saw the world through kaleidoscope eyes.
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In the Middle Ages, those who consumed large amounts of ergot - infested rye flour were afflicted with St. Anthony's Fire, a condition characterized by advanced gangrene.
In the Middle Ages it sometimes killed thousands of people during epidemics when ergot - infected rye bread was more common.
The rye crop consumed in the winter of 1691 - 1692 — when the first unusual symptoms began to be reported — could easily have been contaminated by large quantities of ergot.
Experts now know that those symptoms are common among people with convulsive ergotism, or ergot poisoning, which is caused by a fungus that can grow on wheat, rye, and other similar grains.