. The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) . or healthy albumen, though i,ey are smauer. (Phoebus, p. 101.) In eachof these cells are from one to thru r0Unded bodies, which Mr. Quekett states,are globules of oil, for they are lights than waterj are not made blue by io(]jne,but are soluble in ether. If the structue 0f ergot be examined after the grainshave been dried and remoistened, the presents a most irregular appear-ance. Phoebus (Op. cit. p. 104.) regards the hner substance of the ergot as thealtered albumen, for the embryo does not app^r t0 be formed. The violet c
. The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) . or healthy albumen, though i,ey are smauer. (Phoebus, p. 101.) In eachof these cells are from one to thru r0Unded bodies, which Mr. Quekett states,are globules of oil, for they are lights than waterj are not made blue by io(]jne,but are soluble in ether. If the structue 0f ergot be examined after the grainshave been dried and remoistened, the presents a most irregular appear-ance. Phoebus (Op. cit. p. 104.) regards the hner substance of the ergot as thealtered albumen, for the embryo does not app^r t0 be formed. The violet coathe considers to be the external (or external anLinternal) degenerated little heart-shaped body (Mutzchen) at the0p 0f the ergot (fig 127 f)he regards as the remains of the degenerated at* elevated pericarp, togetherwith some other more external parts of fructification cemented together by theviolet-whitish mass (sporidia, Quek.) This mass, he observes, is obviously anew formation, originating from the already-described saccharine fluid. But. ERGOT OF RYE. 75 Mr. Quekett has shown the body, at the top of the ergot, to be the remains ofthe hairy crown of the grain, of the stigmata, and withered elevated pericarp. Deterioration.—The ergot of rye is fed on by a little acarus, which is aboutone-fourth the size of the cheese-mite. This animal destroys the interior of theergot, and leaves the grain as a mere shell. It produces much powdery excre-mentitious matter (Quekett). In four months, 7-2 ounces of this fcecal matter ofthe acarus were formed in seven pounds of ergot. I have some ergot which hasbeen kept for four years in a stoppered glass vessel without being attacked by theacarus, and it has all the characteristics of good ergot. It is advisable, however,not to use ergot which has been kept for more than two years. Composition.—Ergot was analyzed, in 1186, by Vauquelin [Ann. 387); in 1817, by Pettenkofer (Buchners Report, iii. 65); in 1826, byWinkl
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