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cantharides
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cantharides: see blister beetle blister beetle, common name for certain soft-bodied, usually black or brown, mostly elongate and cylindrical beetles belonging to the family Meloidae. Blister beetles are common insects found feeding on the flowers and foliage of various plants. Occasionally some, e.
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Americas (Victorian Period) Cologne, tincture of cantharides and spirit of camphor were applied to the hairs?
No wonder: as Brown notes, epileptics at the time "might have been prescribed wild valerian, peony root, mistletoe, digitalis, quinine, white dittany, rue, narcissus, opium, asafetida, garlic, camphor, cantharides, copper, zinc, lead, antimony, mercury, iron, silver, carbonic acid or phosphorus.
Spanish Fly or cantharides, if taken internally, cause excruciating irritation to the intestine and urinary tract.
 
 
 
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