Spanish fly
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As if creation contained any mineral, drug simple, leech, Spanish fly, gadfly, or showerbath, so soothing as a loving wife is to a man in affliction.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles
The web of these tarantulas each day Increases, till you shall make common cause: None, save the Spanish fly and Attic bee, As yet are strongly stinging to be free.
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Next fierce LIEBRIECH, quite a savage, has declared that we shall die Shattered and exacerbated by attacks of Spanish fly.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 by Various
Crabs-claws, Spanish fly, and dragon roots, given three mornings before the new or full moon, was suggested as a specific by Sir Robert Gordon.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The Spanish fly is also occasionally found in the south of England.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
