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the salisfaction, in my zeal for new discoveries, of suffering 

 more from the pain and swelling, than I had previously ex- 

 perienced for years. 



An old writer recommends a powder of dried bees, for 

 distressing cases of stoppages ; and some of the highest 

 medical authorities have recently recommended a tea made 

 by pouring boiling water upon bees, for the same complaint, 

 while the homeopathic physicians employ the poison of the 

 bee, which they call apis, for a great variety of maladies. 

 That it is capable of producing intense head-aches any one 

 who has been stung, or who has tasted the poison, very well 

 knows. 



Bee-Dkess. 



Timid Apiarians, and all who are liable to suffer se- 

 verely from the sting of a bee, should by all means furnish 

 themselves with the pro^eclion of a bee-dress. The great 

 objection to gauze-wire veils or other materials of which 

 such a dress has been usually made, is that they obstruct 

 clear vision, so highly important in all operations, besides 

 producing such . excessive heat and perspiration, as to make 

 the Apiarian peculiarly offensive to the bees. I prefer to 

 use what I shall call a bee-hat, of entirely novel construction. 

 It is made of wire cloth, the meshes of which are too fine 

 to admit a bee, and yet coarse enough to allow a free circu- 

 lation of air, and to permit distinct sight. The wire cloth 

 should first be fastened together in a circular shape, like 

 a hat, and large enough to go very easily over the head ; its 

 top may be of cotton cloth, and it should have the same 

 material fastened around its lower edge, and furnished with 

 strings to draw it so closely around the neck and shoulders 

 that a bee cannot 'creep under it. Woolen stockings may 



