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raphany

raphany


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Raphany  \Raph"a*ny\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  raphanie.]  (Med.) 
  A  convulsive  disease,  attended  with  ravenous  hunger,  not 
  uncommon  in  Sweden  and  Germany.  It  was  so  called  because 
  supposed  to  be  caused  by  eating  corn  with  which  seeds  of 
  jointed  charlock  ({Raphanus  raphanistrum})  had  been  mixed, 
  but  the  condition  is  now  known  to  be  a  form  of  ergotism.