POISONING IN FRANCE
HEATHS CAUSED BY ERGOT IN BREAD
PARIS, August 30. Government health officials confirmed to-day that the strange ®ucton which has killed four per"ns aid driven dozens of others to of madness in the village of Esprit in a disease almost ®*nown since the Middle Ages— a fot poisoning. The illness, they said, was caused 5.*® ting the rye bread of the village, , ch ' had somehow become infected. . “ le Government’s scientific labratory at Marseilles, toxologists have a difficult analysis, working , .‘jhout any medical records of case ~„l ori ®® to guide them. They worked Pi« 0,6 d i rect ion of Professor Henri Olivier, who has visited the w „‘s“ en village and conducted post•Jnems on two of the victims. me nearest things to clinical descnu^°c S er got poisoning the experts ~ were va g u e “superstitious--IM7 % records an outbreak in Tn/ Ergot poisoning was frequent in during the Middle Ages, but mSkj ® our inspection laws and ijiods have since made it a rare “currence.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 7
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