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Definition of Cantharides
1. n. pl. See Cantharis.
Definition of Cantharides
1. Noun. (entomology) A genus of coleopterous insects, formerly also taken to include aphids. ¹
2. Noun. Spanish fly, dried ''Cantharis vesicatoria'' beetles, popularly held to have aphrodisiac properties. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cantharides
1. cantharis [n] - See also: cantharis
Medical Definition of Cantharides
1. Plural of cantharis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantharides
Literary usage of Cantharides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"Two dogs of the same age and size, took, the one ten grains of cantharides in
decoction; the other twelve grains in powder. ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1874)
"Action of cantharides.—At a recent meeting of the Sock'te de Biologie (July 18,
... He has experimented with the tincture of cantharides and with ..."
3. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1812)
"Parenchymatous matter, forming one half the weight of the cantharides. 2. A black
matter, affording by distillation an acid phlegm, and a concrete volatile ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon (1824)
"Experiment solitary touching the flies cantharides. 729. THE flies cantharides
are bred of a worm or caterpillar, but peculiar to certain fruit-trees ..."
5. A Handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1897)
"The active principle of cantharides is an acrid crystallizable substance which,
... Preparations of cantharides, taken internally, produce an unpleasant ..."
6. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1895)
"Pharmaceutical Preparations of cantharides. ... of cantharides, containing
about '005 per cent, ... A solution of cantharides for blistering purposes, ..."
7. A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts, Injurious to Vegetation by Thaddeus William Harris (1841)
"The green cantharides, or Spanish-flies, as they are commonly called, ... In like
manner our native cantharides devour the leaves of plants, and sometimes ..."
8. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the testis, and of the spermatic by Thomas Blizard Curling, William H Gobrecht, Paul B Goddard (1856)
"the nature of the influence produced by cantharides, the most common of this
class of medicines, and the chief ingredient of quack remedies for impotency. ..."
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