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Chronic poisoning from excessive or misdirected use of ergot as a medicine or from eating ergotised grain, it is marked by cerebrospinal symptoms, spasms and cramps or by a kind of dry gangrene.
Synonyms: St. Anthony's Fire.
(11 Mar 2008)
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