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Examples
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Where the discharge of urine produces smarting and burning of the urethra, _Cantharis_ is the remedy.
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The insects on which are observed this remarkable circumstance, were the _Cantharis oclemero_, and some others.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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If the sensation is that of smarting, _Cantharis_ is to be used in place of Bell.
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Usually to be discovered among the throng are the velvety black _Lytta_ or _Cantharis_, that impostor wasp-beetle, the black and yellow wavy-banded, red-legged locust-tree borer, and the painted _Clytus_, banded with yellow and sable, squeaking contentedly as he gnaws the florets that feed him.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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[1] The _Cantharis resicatoria_ is imported into India for use in blisters.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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Every part of the Spanish fly [Cantharis or blistering beetle], inside and out, is saturated with the blistering element; but there is nothing like this in the scorpion, who localizes his venom in his caudal gland and has none of it elsewhere.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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_Cantharis_ and _Copris_, and used them as he did the members of the true family of the scarabæidæ, and S. Passalacqua found a species of
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. Isaac Myer 1869
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Several species have been used for the same purpose, and in this immediate neighborhood the Cantharis vittata, var, striped blistering beetle, commonly called the potato fly.
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Dunglison, in his Theraputics, says that the Cantharis vittata, Lytta vittata, potato fly, is somewhat smaller than the Spanish fly (Cantharis vesicatoria), its length being about six lines.
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The Cantharis vittata, or blistering fly, can be found on the potato, and I have myself produced blistering by applying
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