http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ergotpoisoning Posts tagged with 'ergotpoisoning' at MetaFilter. Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:23:20 -0800 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:23:20 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/47339/Ergot%2DPoisoning <a href="http://web.utk.edu/~kstclair/221/ergotism.html">Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?</a> Linda Caporael's 1976 <em>Science</em> article was the first sustained argument that the <a href="http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/history/ergot.htm">Salem witch scare</a> was caused by a case of ergot poisoning. Mary Matossian's 1989 book <a href="http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/poisons_of.html"><em>Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics and History</em></a> makes a more comprehensive argument for the effect that <a href="http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/plantsci/crops/pp551w.htm">ergot</a> poisoning has had specfically on European history. <a href="http://www.virago.co.uk/virago/meet/comyns_extract.asp?TAG=BCEYMX69XX5X85889097VR&CID=virago">Barbara Comyns</a> wrote a fabulous 1955 novel called <em>Who Was Changed, and Who Was Dead</em> about a 1927 ergot poisoning outbreak in Manchester, England. <a href="http://ccag.tamu.edu/Odvody/ergot.htm">Pictures</a> of the dread mold. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.47339 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:23:20 -0800 ergot ergotpoisoning mold poisoning witchcraft OmieWise