BEE-STING CURE FOR RHEUMATISM

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 4

BEE-STING CURE FOR RHEUMATISM

';.•' Dr. E/T.'Burton supplies information as .to:"■ whero bees can; be obtained 'and how;'tha' : creatures aire 1 applied. ''During- hibernation -. they can-onlyVbo ;had from those, beekeepers i who have "box hives.; They must be ; by the medical man in a properly ventilated: box.in the pocket,.; and kept; not'longer than.-: throe days:till required in a,.warm placo dur- ■ ing_ cold weather. :'A-small quantity of barely . moistened ■ castor: sugar should', occupy pari' of oh© oiid of the box.:; The lid of the boj - ,-is fastened by a sorqw.-in .the.middle of,oni. end; a slip, of glass of the same 1 sizo as 'thY lid may be^.placed in a.lino with, one sid<-, and pushed.back, following closely on the'lid. Tho doctor has also devised a modification", of the spring forceps;, to seize ' the" insects,'. - - The legs., of the forceps eaclrend in a semi- ; ■ oirolo. which, when' iuid:. covered witi indiafubber valve .tubing—the .bees resent . cold steel—mako a circle, measuring - some-' thing less than l-16in,, or.a":trifle'loss than-' the shoulders, of tho' bee. : This .must, be in-'' eerted with, cafe between, thbv.-glass and th«'box, as a littlo. nervousness *hiay : allow'the, escape, of-one, or, more bees _to the r terror .- of a .nervous patient.- .When "the-bee -'is'S seized, the forceps is secured by an automatic- 7 lock; and it..should,b'o-seen-that tho boos'in tho box aro.equally secure, by either lid" or glass, boforp thq next move. 'TJie bee is"", then held olosoto .the ,reqnired ; "spot 4 an| ''■■ very,..little prossure; is -needed"to'make' hw ,! '" j sting.—'Scienco Sittings." .;'. ~: