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Cantaride prep
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This albarello-shaped drug jar has a light blue under glaze, and is decorated with cobalt blue flowers and birds. The escroll at the waist is marked in black gothic script with the cold technique <i>Cantaride prep</i>. Cantharides is powdered Spanish flies. It was applied to the skin and sometimes used as a blistering agent.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineCantaride prep. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
