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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Bee - Stings and Rheuma- 

 tism. — In a recent issue of the British 

 Bee Journal, is an account of what 

 seems to be a clear case of great relief 

 from the effects of rheumatism by the 

 application of bee-stings. It has often 

 been stated that bee-stings are a great 

 cure for this severe trouble which so 

 frequently renders the sufferer quite 

 helpless, besides having to endure the 

 pain. 



Below we present the experience of a 

 rheumatic individual, as described by 

 Philander Jowett in the bee-paper re- 

 ferred to above. If there is truth in it, 

 at least no bee-keeper should longer 

 " enjoy poor health," if from rheuma- 

 tism. Here is the account as published : 



I sometime ago came across a few 

 articles having reference to bee-stings 

 as a cure for rheumatism. The subject 

 had passed from my mind until just 

 recently, when a particular friend of 

 mine, who has suffered from this annoy- 

 iDg complaint,was stating his case to 

 me, and I at once remembered what I 

 had read, and told him about it. His 

 curiosity being aroused, he asked to see 

 the letters, and came to my apiary to try 

 the effect of the remedy. 



My friend is an ex-police sergeant, 

 who has suffered acutely for years 

 from rheumatism, and passed through 

 the hands of several medical men, and 

 spent seasons at various convalescent 

 homes, undergoing various kinds of 

 treatment, but all to no purpose. How- 

 ever, on Monday, the 11th of last July, 

 he came to see me, suffering from severe 

 pain in his right elbow and right ankle. 

 With the help of my bees I gave him 

 eight stings, three upon the elbow, and 

 five upon the ankle. When he came he 

 could not lift his arm, and it was with 

 very great difficulty that he managed to 

 walk, a distance of two miles, to my 

 place ; but 20 minutes after being stung, 

 he could work his arm about as freely 

 as if he had never had any rheumatism 

 in his life, and he walked away like a 

 two-year-old. 



On the following night he came down 

 to have another application, and told 

 me he had not had so good a night's rest 

 for six months, as after the bee-stings 

 his pain was gone, and his ankle was 

 three inches less in circumference than 

 it had been for two years previously. 



I gave him 16 more stings, six on 

 each ankle, and four on the elbow, with 

 the result that he was quite free from 

 pain until the 27th ult., when he felt a 

 slight return of his old enemy, and came 

 for a third dose. I gave him another 

 12 stings, six on each ankle, and when 

 I saw him on the 30th, he treated me 

 to a short hornpipe to show me the good 

 he had received from his " little friends," 

 as he called them. 



He is quite anxious for the case to be 

 published, in order to ascertain if any 

 case of permanent cure had been ef- 

 fected by bees. As for his own experi- 

 ence, he is quite willing to answer any 

 questions with respect to it, and equally 

 anxious to know if he may look upon it 

 as a permanent cure, or only as a ques- 

 tion of having ease for a time only ; and 

 if any of your numerous readers have 

 had a similar experience, he would like 

 them to state the particulars through 

 your columns, and, in return, he will do 

 what he can to satisfy them as to the 

 genuineness of his own cure, so far as it 

 has gone. — Philander Jowett. 



Tomato Culture is the title of a 

 new and neat pamphlet of about 140 

 pages, published by A. I. Root, Medina, 

 Ohio. Price, 40 cents, postpaid. Its 

 name indicates the subject which it 

 treats. The first part is by Mr. J. W. 

 Day, of Crystal Springs, Miss., the 

 pioneer tomato-grower in the South, 

 and the man who raises tomatoes by the 

 hundreds of acres for the Chicago mar- 

 kets. Part second is by Mr. D. Cum- 

 mins, of Conneaut, 0., proprietor of the 

 Lake-Shore Canning factory. His direc- 

 tions were given primarily for the bene- 

 fit of farmers round about him, who 

 raise tomatoes for his canning works. 

 The last part of the book is by Mr. A. 

 I. Root, who has taken the liberty to 

 visit both of the above-named gentle- 

 men, and adds touches here and there to 

 the book, from the beginning to the end. 

 We hope it will be found of value, not 

 only to tomato growers, but to garden- 

 ers in general, especially those who ex- 

 pect to protect their stuff from the early 

 and late frosts. 



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