Salem Witch Trials—Bewitchment or Ergotism
From the JAMA archives just in time for Halloween, check out The Salem Witch Trials—Bewitchment or Ergotism which presents a new theory for what caused temporary blindness, skin lesions, convulsions, and hallucinations and eventually led to the Salem witch trials.
Interested in learning more about how ergot may have made history? Search PubMed by Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) to find more articles: "Ergotism/history"[MAJR]
