In this episode, Dr’s J and Santhosh discuss ergotism, covering it’s surprising journey from disease to drug. Along the way, they cover medieval art history, Saint Anthony, the antonites, uses for amputated limbs, medieval locums doctors, plant smut, gangrenous ergotism, european history influence, epidemiology, potatoes to the rescue, nanny goats, pulvis ad partem, migraine treatment and more! So sit back and relax as we teach you all about a fungus among us!

Sources
1) https://asm.org/Articles/2018/November/From-Poisoning-to-Pharmacy-A-Tale-of-Two-Ergots
2) https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/disandpath/fungalasco/pdlessons/Pages/Ergot.aspx
3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1343691/

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