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Spanish fly

Alternative name for a European blister beetle Lytta vesicatoria, once used in powdered form as a dangerous diuretic and supposed aphrodisiac.



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Hollenkemp, an 1852 case, the court let stand a punitive damages award against a local drug store where the store's agent had accidentally mixed cantharides in the plaintiff's medicine, making him ill.
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