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poison (168). External applications, however, cannot be relied 

 upon to neutralise the injected poison. If, when the sting has 

 been removed, the part stung be not rubbed, but pinched with 

 the finger and thumb until, on loosing- it, the pain does not 

 return, little trouble will be experienced. It generally follows 

 that, when one has been frequently stung, one becomes safe 

 from pain and swelling as results of stings. Further, there 

 is much testimony to the fact that such ailments as rheuma- 

 tism are alleviated and even cured by a sufficient application of 

 the sting of the bee ; so that the pain of the sting is not with- 

 out its compensation. 



" I am a firm believer in the efficacy of Btings as a cure for rheuma- 

 tism. Shortly after my recovery from rheumatic fever, a lady pre- 

 sented me with an entire apiary, and in the transfer of the stocks I 

 got a ' murthering ' of stings, and, though I had been subject to rheuma- 

 tism for years previously, I never, since that stinging, felt a twinge 

 of it.*' — T. B. O'Bryen, in the Irish Bee JownaU 



USING THE SMOKEE. 



^J. O, Digges. 



