Spanish fly
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| #*:Basically Louis's drug dealer and pimp, Richelieu, known for opium recipes to fit all occasions, is also credited with the introduction into France of the '''cantharides''', or Spanish fly. | #*:Basically Louis's drug dealer and pimp, Richelieu, known for opium recipes to fit all occasions, is also credited with the introduction into France of the '''cantharides''', or Spanish fly. | ||
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- The Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria, taken to have aphrodisiac properties.
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life:
- Speaking her name, it was as if he spake pure cantharides. ‘Quick,’ she panted. ‘There is time before they are all about. Again.’
- 1992, Will Self, Cock and Bull:
- It’s lucky that Carol had taken the precaution of obtaining some cantharides; without them the evening might have been a dead loss.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 612:
- Basically Louis's drug dealer and pimp, Richelieu, known for opium recipes to fit all occasions, is also credited with the introduction into France of the cantharides, or Spanish fly.
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life:
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