found: MeSH browser, Nov. 1, 2006(Cantharidin. Entry term: Cantharides. Pharm. action: Irritants)
found: Dorland's med. dict.(cantharides: the dried Spanish fly Lytta (Cantharis) vesicatoria, sometimes called blister bug. Cantharides were once applied externally as a powerful rubefacient and blistering agent and given internally as a diuretic and aphrodisiac; cantharidin: the most important active principle of cantharides)
found: American heritage dict.(cantharides: plural of cantharis, a toxic preparation of the crushed, dried bodies of this beetle, formerly used as a counter-irritant for skin blisters and as an aphrodisiac. In both senses, also called Spanish fly)
