Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.