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[An account of this disease in rye, is given in seve- 

 ral foreign publications, and was noticed by M. Per- 

 rault, in the Trans, of the Royal Academy of Paris ; 

 an extract of whose paper is given in the Trans. Roy- 

 al Soc. Lond. for 1676, No. 130, p. 758. In the 54th 

 vol. of the transactions of the same society, there is an 

 account by Mr. Tissot of the disorder produced by 

 eating bread made of rye affected by ergot. It is de- 

 nominated by Sauvage, necrosis ustilaginia. The dis- 

 ease termed raphania is thought to originate from the 

 same cause. From the observations of Dr. Stearns of 

 Albany, state of New York,* and Dr. Prescott, there 

 can be no doubt of the ergot possessing very active 

 medicinal powers.] , J. M. 



*Med. Repos. Vol. L p. 308. 



