But there appears to be no precedent at all for the current outbreak of political ergotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

There were signs on Earth -- from 997, the spread of the deadly burning sickness, what we call ergotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks At Fifth Millennium Evening At The White House] Reference

Scholars have sought to explain Salem in terms of gender, class, even encephalitis or ergotism -- or downright fakery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sachems Of Satan] Reference

That's called cacodemono mania (ph), or they have ergotism (ph), a condition in which people believe they will soon burst into flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2007] Reference

Indeed Safire should be remembered, not only as a man passionate about language, but as a civil and urbane conservative who, I would like to believe, was as appalled by the current outbreak of right-wing political ergotism as am I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Finally there are the everyday bits and pieces of life on earth in the new millennium — a smorgasbord of climate change, natural and unnatural disasters, the political ergotism presently infecting America, animal news, poetry, technology, good books and better gossip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

I click it and in teh section where it talks about what might have rilly caused teh strange behavior and mentions ergotism, it says “When consumed, rye in the ergot stage of fungus development can bring on strange sensations such as burning and itching of the skin, “pins and needles” feeling, spasms, convulsions, unconsciousness, hallucinations, and psychosis.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPOSTER! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Mold-induced food poisoning called ergot or ergotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [歪酷博客 Ycool Blog] Reference

Even as late as 1945, ergotism was still retarding the population growth of Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [歪酷博客 Ycool Blog] Reference

With decomposed breads we take the poisons that produce pellagra, kak-ke, ergotism and acrodinia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene] Reference

Wood also mentions a species of ergotism characterized by epileptic paroxysms, which he calls "spasmodic ergotism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Wood also mentions a species of ergotism characterized by epileptic paroxysms, which he calls ` ` spasmodic ergotism. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

According to Wood, gangrenous ergotism, or "Ignis Sacer" of the Middle Ages, killed 40,000 persons in Southwestern France in 922 A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The girls afflicted in the trials could have been hallucinating from convulsive ergotism, an infection caused by the fungus found in rye back in their time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Through careful analysis of the surrounding agrarian landscape, dotted with cults targeting specific afflictions, especially ergotism (then known as St. Silvan's fire), Kupfer sheds new light on the role of wall painting in an ecclesiastical economy of healing and redemption.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

They see themselves at the end of a long European dialectic, generations of blighted grain, ergotism, witches on broomsticks, community orgies, cantons lost up there in folds of mountain that haven't known an unhallucinated day in the last 500 years-keepers of a tradition, aristocrats - ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

What about ergotism, leprosy, AIDS?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saints on Percocet] Reference

Constitutional diseases, such as ergotism, anthrax, and septicemia, predispose to gangrene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference