Nov 26, 2024
A Nobleman, a Saint, and LSD: The Lingering Legacy of St. Anthony's Fire and Ergot du seigle (Ergot of Rye) in France
Seigle d’Auvergne (Photo credit: The Partisan Baker) Imagine this: Lying on your filthy straw bed, one rat running pell-mell over your burning toes (or what’s left of them on your right foot) and another hovering like a vulture near your face, you groan and inhale the fetid odor of rot. Your left foot fell off yesterday — you vaguely remember your sister wrapping the shrunken, blackened flesh in…