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"FUMOUZE, ARMAND. - THE SPANISH FLY.
De la Cantharide Officinale.
Paris, Germer Baillière, 1867. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip partly gone. (4),58 pp. and 5 lithographed plates, one depicting 7 species of Cantharis handcoloured. Some brownspots to plates.
Reference : 44861
This is the authors doctoral thesis ""These de Pharmacie Presentée et soutenue a L'École Superieure de Pharmacie"", dealing with the toxical, poisonous character of these kinds of beetles with the popular name of ""Spanish Fly"". - The Marquis de Sade is claimed to have given aniseed-flavored pastilles that were laced with Spanish fly to prostitutes at an orgy in 1772. He was sentenced to death for poisoning and sodomy, but later reprieved on appeal.
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