beetles combined with arsenic to create a noxious gas.

Pharmaco-chemical isolation

Cantharidin was first isolated as a chemically pure substance in 1810 by Pierre Robiquet, a French chemist then living in Paris. Robiquet isolated cantharidin as the active ingredient in pharmacological preparations of Lytta vesicatoria (Spanish fly), a species of blister beetle. This was one

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