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Ergotism

Fungal toxins in grain caused convulsions, hallucinations, and historical outbreaks.

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Nature: ErgotismErgotism (pronounced UR-gət-iz-əm) is the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus—from the Latin clava "club" or clavus "nail" and -ceps for "head", i.e. the purple club-headed fungus—that infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs. Ophiocordyceps unilateralisOphiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as zombie-ant fungus, is an insect-pathogenic fungus, discovered by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859. Amorphophallus titanumAmorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae.
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