[191.] Wilhelm’s Recr. from Nat. Hist., quot. by Latrielle, Hist. Nat., ix. 194. Quot. by Kirb. and Sp. Introd., i. 213. Carpenter, Zool., ii. 133.
[192.] Brookes informs us that Dr. Greenfield, a practitioner in London, was sent to Newgate, by the college, for having given Cantharides inwardly. This happened in the year 1698; but he was soon after released, by a superior authority, when he published a work upon the good effects of these insects taken inwardly for strangury, and other disorders of the kidneys and bladder. We are also told by Ambrose Parry, that a courtezan, having invited a young man to supper, had seasoned some of the dishes with the powder of Cantharides, which the very next day produced such an effect, that he died with an evacuation of blood, which the physicians were not able to stop. Many other instances might be brought, continues Brookes, of persons that have been either killed, or brought to death’s door, by a wanton use of these Flies, which had been given them privately, with a design to cause love. Some go so far as to affirm, that people have been thrown into a fever, only by sleeping under trees on which were a great number of Cantharides; and Mr. Boyle informs us, after authors worthy of credit, that some persons have felt considerable pains about the neck of the bladder, only by holding Cantharides in their hands.—Nat. Hist. of Ins., p. 50–1.
[193.] Pliny, Nat. Hist., xxix. 30.
[194.] Asiatic Res., v. 213.
[195.] Baird’s Cyclop. of Nat. Sci.
[196.] Med. Dict.
[197.] Cuvier, An. King.—Ins., i. 569.
[198.] Pliny, Nat. Hist., xxix. 30.
[199.] Sloane, Hist. of Jamaica, ii. 206.
[200.] Owen’s Geoponika, ii. 156.