How To Use Spanish fly In A Sentence
- The method has also proved valuable in a great many ways in research into the constitution of complex natural products; these include the resinic acids and cantharidin, the active substance - with very peculiar chemical properties - of the "Spanish fly" (which is actually a beetle). Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950 - Presentation Speech
- This finding has caused many to mistakenly assume that cantharides, or rather ‘Spanish fly,’ is an aphrodisiac.
- Spanish Fly refers to beautiful, iridescent green insects, Cantharis vesicatoria, which contain cantharidin, which is both a vesicant (causes blisters) and a diuretic.
- The most notorious is ‘Spanish fly’, also known as cantharides.
- The most popular although not with the patients vesicatories or blister-raising agents were cantharides or powdered Spanish fly and mustard powders. Bedlam
- Spanish Fly is ground-up blister beetle, indigenous to Europe.
