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of hematuria after swallowing a dose of cantharides, which he intended to fortify his sex drive. Cantharides were in widespread use among the upper classes

others in its family were used in traditional apothecary preparations as "Cantharides". The insect is the source of the terpenoid cantharidin, a toxic blistering

aphrodisiacs, including the notoriously dangerous "green metallic beetles", cantharides, have appeared in many Moroccan ras el hanout formulations, but these

medicine include: Tincture of benzoin Tincture of cannabis Tincture of cantharides Tincture of castoreum Tincture of ferric citrochloride, a chelate of

your Cock, or Lamb-stones, your Soys, your Ketchups and Caveares, your Cantharides, and your Whites of Eggs, are not to be compared to our rude Indian…"

and mood stabilizer drugs such as sodium valproate. Anticoagulants, cantharides (Spanish Fly) and recreational drugs (alcohol, heroin and cocaine) have

(useful to produce red dye), diamonds, sandalwood, incense, puyang pepper, cantharides (green beetles used for medicine), steel, turtles, tortoiseshell, strange

thallium acetate, sodium azide, sodium cyanide, mercury oxycyanide, cantharides, colchicine, powerful anticoagulants such as brodifacoum, phenylsilatranes

 37. ISBN 978-0-312-20353-5. B.M. Ansell, F. Antonini, L.E. Glynn: "Cantharides blisters in children with rheumatic fever". Clinical Science, November

wrote that he had been performing this procedure (using either iodine or cantharides) since 1836. Another early American practitioner of this method was George