| The convulsive form of ergotism mostly begins with some cerebral disturbance. |
| Thus far the foreign experience of ergotism, both medieval and modern, and of its several types. |
| But at the time, no scientist had connected those black seed grains with ergotism. |
| It is almost exclusively among the peasantry that symptoms of ergotism have been seen, and among children particularly. |
| One of the main illnesses treated at the hospital was ergotism, a disease caused by ergot, a fungus that grows especially on rye. |
| The first undoubted instance of ergotism in England belongs to the eighteenth century. |
