However, this is one of the main grains that ergot can contaminate. After cold or wet winters or damp springs, the fungus could grow on rye from the previous harvest. By summer, the bread could be ...

Rye (as a cereal or as a bread) can be infected with ergot, a fungus which invades developing kernels under warm and damp conditions - known to have been the case in Salem at the time.

This week the source of that fear, a trade controversy, became public. Ergot is rotted rye. A fungus grows on the rye head and eats away the grains. What is left is a collection of hard bodies ...

It's a condition that results from a fungus that grows on rye ... from ergot in 1938. It would be wrong to imagine Salemites as paper-dot-popping day trippers due to bad bread, but some symptoms ...

Prof. E. H. Clarke specially recommended this paper to us for publication, and it was furnished at our solicitation. — Ed.

When ingested, ergot produces toxic alkaloids that cut ... who ate substantial amounts of inexpensive rye bread. The relative success of these well-endowed hospitals may be attributed to feeding ...

Ergotism, or ergot poisoning, is when a person or animal eats food that has been contaminated with a fungus called C. purpurea. The fungus is most commonly found in rye, but it can affect other ...

Additionally, producers should scout the rye seed heads in a field prior to feeding, K-State veterinarian Bob Larson said, to avoid health problems caused by ergot fungus. “Rye is at a bigger ...

Ergot grows on grain during very hot and wet ... it seems likely that the entire witchcraft scare was caused by some bad rye bread. Mike Szydlowski is a science teacher and zoo facilitator ...

Med. Jurisprud. Ins., p. 209. Malad. Ment. i. p. 231. Ann. Hyg., xlv. p. 439.