Note 2446 — Chapter XL · OF THE EFFECTS OF POISONOUS GRAIN AND PULSE.
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In the Philosophical Transactions for 1762 an account is given of a family of eight people in Suffolk, who had the gangrenous form of the disease induced by spurred rye. They had lived on damaged wheat, but never used rye meal. See Dr. Wollaston’s paper, lii. 523, and Mr. Bone’s Letter, Ibid. 526.