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he chief medical and scientific journals for trustworthy evidence as to 



success or failure of this popular treatment. The poison which the 



injects is formic acid, and Dr. Walker's attention had been drawn to 



popular belief by certain observations of his own 'which seemed to 



gest a possible relationship between some of the phenomena of acute 



iimatism. and abnormal production of formic acid in the body,' under the 



on of a micro-organism. He has now received, says ,The Manchester 



irdian, an interesting bbdy of mainly favorable testimony, much of it 



n medical observers. But the most interesting evidence of all is that 



m Austrian, Dr. Terc, who has been using the treatment systematically 



., as he claims, successfully for years, and has dealt with seven hun- 



i cases. 



"Dr. Terc published an account of his method and results twenty 

 rs agol but his paper was generally ignored. He has found that a rheu- 

 ;ic subject is less susceptible to bee stings than a healthy person; the 

 Dndary swelling, which normally lasts a few days, fails to appear. His 

 itment is to continue the stinging until a stage is reached when even 

 L rheumatic subject this swelling begins to appear. At this stage, there 

 I marked improvement in the rheumatic symptoms. The stinging -is 

 n carried on until a further stage is reached, when the swelling again 

 3 to appear, however many stings are applied, and this development 

 mmunity to stings is accompanied by a complete cure for rheumatism, 

 cure enduring as long as the immunity remains. Sometimes a dozen 

 gs complete the whole process; sometimes hundreds are necessary. — 

 idee Advertiser (The Pharmaceutical Era, January 14, 1909). 



BEE STING FATALITIES. 



Notwithstanding all this, the heroic method of procedure hy the 

 ;ct sting of the bee, will not appeal to many persons, nor, for ob- 

 as reasons, ever be very popular. Besides, the sting of the bee is 



without danger. Deaths even occur from a single sting, as is 

 ;n reported, the following being statements of fact: 



In the summer of 1866 the wife of Dr. Albert von Donhoflf, of 

 jisville, Ky., while engaged among the flowers of her garden was 

 ng (in the temple I believe) by a honey-bee, and notwithstanding 



prompt assistance of her husband, one of the most experienced 

 'sicians of the period, she died within a few hours after the acci- 

 t. — C. L,ewis Diehl. 



Mr. John R. Stanbery, of Powell, Delaware Co., Ohio, (father 

 VIrs. Mary S. Watts, of Cincinnati), who had been previously stung 

 eral times by both honey bees and bumble bees, lost his life by 

 son of a^bee sting. The tragic event is thus described by Mrs. 

 ,tts: 



"The final stinging occurred on a very hot August day, when he had 

 le out to the clover-fields to watch the men cutting the clover-hay. He 

 ked directly into a nest of bumble-bees; half a dozen of the men saw 

 I. and ran immediately to his help. They fought the bees off, but it was 



late. He spoke once,'saying in reply to their questions "whether he had 

 n stung," "I'm very sick," and became unconscious. He was hurriedly 

 ;n to his home, the services of a physician being at once secured. But, 

 lOUgh everything possible was done, he died in twenty minutes. It was 

 :overed that he had been stung six times, directly on the pulse. When 



hand relaxed after death, a dead bee was found clenched tightly in it. 



"Perhaps I ought to emphasize the fact that my father was a very tem- 

 ite man, and had been so all his life. He was in robust bodily health 

 he time of his death." 



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