Sentences with phrase «when ergot»
In the Middle Ages it sometimes killed thousands of people during epidemics when ergot - infected rye bread was more common.
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When Albert Hoffmann began exploring the chemical properties of the ergot spore, he stumbled upon a potent psychedelic
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.